Kosovo’s ex-freedom fighter released from jail

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A lawyer says the former commander of Kosovo’s independence fighters has been released from jail.
Tome Gashi on Friday said Sylejman Selimi, head of the Kosovo Liberation Army during the 1998-99 war, was released by a panel that found “he had been unfairly kept in jail after the Supreme Court decided last year to re-try his case.”
Selimi was sentenced in 2015 to eight years of jail for mistreating civilians.
Gashi said Selimi has not been officiall