Albin Kurti - ``I don't recognise the court or Serbia or Yugoslavia. This court is in the service of the fascist regime of (Yugoslav President) Slobodan Milosevic and has nothing in common with truth and justice.'' By Dragan Stankovic NIS, Yugoslavia, March 9 (Reuters) - A Kosova Albanian student leader spat defiance on Thursday at the Serbian court where he is being tried for terrorism, saying he recognised neither Serbia nor Yugoslavia. Albin Kurti, 25, was arrested in Kosova last April during NATO's air strikes on Yugoslavia and is one of 1,300 Kosova Albanians who human rights lawyers in Belgrade say are still being held in Serbian jails. Kurti was charged with associating with others for hostile activities related to terrorism, a crime which carries a maximum 20-year sentence during a state of war. ``It is irrelevant to me if I am sentenced to 10, 20, 30 or 40 years in jail. In principle I do not answer to this court, I only answer to the court of my people,'' he told the court in a defiant statement in Albanian. ``I don't recognise the court or Serbia or Yugoslavia. This court is in the service of the fascist regime of (Yugoslav President) Slobodan Milosevic and has nothing in common with truth and justice.'' He said independence for Kosova was vital for the security of the Albanian people, but refused to answer any questions or to recognise the defence lawyer appointed to him. HUNDREDS RELEASED Most of the detainees deny charges of terrorism, and several hundred have been released in recent months. Kurti was a leader of the Independent Union of Albanian Students, established as part of a parallel, Albanian university set up in the Kosovan capital Pristina after Belgrade stripped the province of its autonomy and imposed direct rule in 1989. He also organised student demonstrations in Kosova in autumn 1997 and later worked for Adem Demaci, the former political representative of the Kosova Liberation Army (KLA). The KLA fought Yugoslav armed forces for over a year before the NATO air strikes led to an agreement last June paving the way for the withdrawal of Yugoslav forces and deployment of Alliance-led peacekeepers in their place. Kurti said he had been Demaci's secretary and his role was to represent the policy of the KLA and its liberation war. He said he would do everything again if he had the chance. ``The KLA liberation war was a just struggle for the independence of Kosova and other ethnic Albanian-populated territories and liberation from a fascist regime,'' Kurti said. Demaci, who lived openly in Pristina both before and during the air strikes, said Kurti had just been his translator. ``If anyone should be held responsible for being a political representative of the KLA it is me and not some translators, clerks or advisers who helped me,'' he told Belgrade radio B292. The case was adjourned until March 13 to give the prosecution time to prepare a closing statement.