New indictments for war crimes announced

SOURCE: TANJUG
BELGRADE -- Serbian Deputy War Crimes Prosecutor Bruno Vekari! announced indictments
against over 40 war crime suspects in the next few months.
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They concern Istok, !trpce, and
Srebrenica cases.
The Serbian Prosecutor's Office has
been working on the cases for three
years now as these are very demanding
procedures and cannot be completed
within short periods of time like regular
cases, Vekari" said on Tuesday at a
gathering focusing on the war crime trials
in Serbia in 2013.
The debate in Belgrade was organized
by the Humanitarian Law Center and
USAID. The deputy prosecutor agreed with the assessments that the number of war crime indictments
raised in 2013 was low, with only seven trials launched against 14 suspects, and pointed to the
problems the Prosecutor's Office is facing.
Vekari" agreed with the criticism voiced by Humanitarian Law Center Director Sandra Orlovi" who said
that the punitive policy is generally mild when it comes to war crimes, but he explained that the
prosecution had to adjust to the new Code of Criminal Procedure and prosecutorial investigation
standards in the past few years.
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Lawyer: !e#elj did not accept court's conditions
July 9, 2014 | 09:27 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (32) | Send comment
THE HAGUE -- Vojislav !e#elj remains in detention after a deadline
expired for him to accept the conditions set out by the Hague Tribunal
(ICTY) for his provisional release.
Court yet to receive response from !e#elj
July 8, 2014 | 10:45 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (9) | Send comment
Head of the Rule of Law and Human Rights Department with the OSCE Mission in Serbia Romana
Schweiger said that it is impossible to organise trials against everyone and added that resources
should not be wasted and instead, the authorities need to focus on the most important cases.
Orlovic also voiced criticism against the Belgrade High Court and the Appellate Court over their mild
punitive policy and the tendency to keep data anonymous, but she underscored that the procedure is
the same in other countries in the region too.
High Court and the Appellate Court in Belgrade referred to the Law on Personal Data Protection and
obscured the names of judges, lawyers and defendants. As the most obvious example of this, Orlovi"
listed the case against the Gnjilane group.
The Gnjilane group comprises members of the para-military ethnic Albanian forces in Kosovo and
Metohija, the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army, who were sentenced to a total of 116 years of
imprisonment for aggravated torture, rape and robbery of the property of 80 Serb civilians and other
non-Albanians in the territory of Gnjilane from June to December 1999.
In the appeal proceedings, the Appellate Court decided to acquit all the 11 defendants due to lack of
evidence.
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BELGRADE -- The Hague Tribunal has said they received no response
from Vojislav !e#elj, who was on Friday given three days to accept the
terms of his provisional release.
!e#elj given three days to respond to conditions
July 4, 2014 | 16:47 | Source: Tanjug | Comments: (11) | Send comment
THE HAGUE -- The Hague (ICTY) has given Vojislav !e#elj a 3-day
deadline to declare in writing that he will comply with the conditions of his
possible provisional release.
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Velimir Radosavljevi" was late on Thursday released from police
detention pending trial.
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THE HAGUE -- The Hague Tribunal (ICTY) said on Thursday that it is
still unable to comment on a compensation request filed by Vojislav
!e#elj.
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!e#elj seeks EUR 12mn compensation for wrongful detention
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THE HAGUE -- Vojislav !e#elj has requested EUR 12 million in
compensation from the Hague Tribunal (ICTY) for what he claims is
wrongful detention by the court.
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