Kosova Albanian student leader jailed for 15 years BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (Reuters) - A district court in southern Serbia sentenced a Kosova Albanian student leader to 15 years in prison on terrorism charges Monday, an agency reported. The independent Beta news agency said Albin Kurti, 25 [Albin turns 25 on March 24], had been charged with "jeopardising Yugoslavia's territorial integrity and conspiring to commit an enemy activity linked to terrorism," a crime that carries maximum penalty of 20 years' imprisonment. The court-assigned defense lawyer Branislav Ciric said he would appeal, Beta reported. The trial, in Nis, opened Thursday with Kurti saying he recognized neither Serbia nor Yugoslavia. "I don't recognize the court or Serbia or Yugoslavia. This court is in the service of the fascist regime of (Yugoslav President) Slobodan Milosevic," he said. Kurti was arrested in Kosova in April during NATO's air strikes on Yugoslavia. One of 1,300 Kosova Albanians that human rights lawyers in Belgrade say are in Serbian jails, he was the leader of the Independent Union of Albanian Students, a parallel Albanian university set up in Pristina after Belgrade stripped Kosova of its autonomy and imposed direct rule in 1989. He also organized student demonstrations in Kosova and worked for Adem Demaci, the former political representative of the KLA, which fought Yugoslav security forces for more than a year.