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Category Archives: ICTY
ICTY: Gotovina: Appeals Chamber Takes Word-Limits Seriously
2010-05-13, The Hague, The Netherlands. Judge Fausto Pocar of the Appeals Chamber granted, in part, Gotovina’s motion to strike the OTP’s Prosecution’s Response to Gotovina Defence Appeal Concerning Permanent Restraining Orders to the Republic of Croatia. The Appeals Chamber forced the OTP to refile their Response because the OTP inserted quotes from Gotovina’s arguments at [...]
Posted in ICTY Tagged Alan Tieger, Andresia Vaz, Andrew Cayley, Ante Gotovina, appendice, Croatia, factual arguments, Fausto Pocar, Gillian Higgins, Goran Mikulicic, Gregory W. Kehoe, IT-06-90-AR73.5, Ivan Cermak, legal argument, Liu Daqun, Luka S. Misetic, Mehrnet Guney, Mladen Markac, motion to strike, non-argumentative material, para. (C)(6), Payam Akhavan, Practice Direction, quotation, quote, refile, Stephen Kay, Theodor Meron, Tomislav Kuzmanovic, word limit Comments closed
ICTY: Mladic: Indictment to be Shortened
2010-05-10, The Hague, The Netherlands. The OTP filed a motion to amend its Indictment against Ratko Mladic. The new Indictment would decrease the number of counts from 15 to 11. The counts allege the commission of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the context of ethnic cleansing in BiH from 1992-1995, the siege of Sarajevo [...]
Posted in ICTY Tagged amendment, Bihac-Ripac, Bosanska Gradiska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, complicity, crimes against humanity, Doboj, ethnic cleansing, Gacko, genocide, Hadzici, hostage, Ilidza, indictment, individual responsibility, motion, Nevesinje, Novo Sarajevo, Pale, Radovan Karadzic, Ratko Mladic, Sarajevo, siege, Sokolac, Srebrenica, Srebrenica genocide, Teslic, Trnovo, UN personnel, war crimes Comments closed
Croatia: Gotovina: Defence Files Criminal Complaint Against UN Observers
2010-04-26, Zagreb, Croatia. Luka Misetic, Ante Gotovina’s defence counsel, submitted a criminal complaint against former UNMO (United Nations Military Observers) staffers: Alexander Tchernetsky (Russia) , Viktor Tarusin (Russia; Chief Information Officer), and Peter Gage Williams (Britain; Colonel). The complaint alleges that Mr. Tchernetsky found military documents of Croatian Army related to the Operation Storm, a.k.a. [...]
Also posted in BiH WCS Tagged Alan Tieger, Alexander Tchernetsky, Ante Gotovina, archives, Article 327 (1), artillery diaries, Chief Information Officer, Colonel, concealment, Criminal Code, criminal complaint, Croatia, Croatian Army, destruction, Gregory Kehoe, HV, Ivan Cermak, Luka Misetic, military documents, Mladen Markac, Municipal State Attorney Office, non-military targets, Operation Storm, Payam Akhavan, Peter Gage Williams, Stefan Waespi, United Nations Military Observers, UNMO, Viktor Tarusin, Zagreb Comments closed
ICTY: General Krstic’s Throat Slashed in a UK Prison
2010-05-08, Wakefield, England. Three Muslim prisoners attacked General Krstic in the Wakefield Prison, where he was serving his 35-year ICTY sentence for aiding and abetting Srebrenica genocide. His throat was slashed with a razorblade embedded in a toothbrush. One of the attackers was Indrit Krasniqi, 22, who is serving life-sentence for murdering a 16 year-old girl [...]
Posted in ICTY Tagged aiding and abetting genocide, attack, England, Indrit Krasniqi, Pinderfields Hospital, prison, Radislav Krstic, sentence, United Kingdom, Wakefield, Wakefield Prison Comments closed
ICTY: Perisic: TC Admits Evidence of Babic, Deronjic & Dukic under Rule 92 Quater
2010-04-21, The Hague, The Netherlands. The Trial Chamber granted the defence’s motion to admit evidence of Milan Babic, Miroslav Deronjic and Dorde Dukic under Rule 92 quater. Statement of Law. In order to admit evidence under Rule 92 quater, the Chamber should be satisfied that the person is unavailable; the evidence which is sought to [...]
Posted in ICTY Tagged Bakone Justice Moloto, credibility, cross-examination, cumulative relevance, Daniel Saxon, Dorde Dukic, evidence, Gregor Guy-Smith, indictment, interpreter, issue of central importance, IT-04-81-T, manifest or obvious inconsistencies, Mark Harmon, Michele Picard, Milan Babic, Miroslav Deronjic, motion, Novak Lukic, oath, Pedro David, probative value, purpose for admission, relevance, reliable, Rule 89 (C), Rule 92 quater, Rules of Procedure and Evidence, temporal scope, trial record, unavailable, unsworn statement Comments closed
ICTY: Karadzic: TC Reiterates Its Refusal to Hear Deronjic’s Evidence
2010-04-20, The Hague, The Netherlands. The Chamber refused to reconsider its earlier decision to admit Miroslav Deronjic’s evidence under Rule 92 quater. Statement of Law – Reconsideration. The power of the Chamber to reconsider its decision is not provided for in the Statute or the Rules, but is established by the ICTY’s jurisprudence. The party seeking [...]
Posted in ICTY Tagged Alan Tieger, certification, evidence, fair trial, Flavia Lattanzi, Hildegard Uertz-Retzlaff, Howard Morrison, IT-95-5/18-T, Melville Baird, Miroslav Deronjic, O-Gon Kwon, probative value, Radovan Karadzic, reconsideration, reliability, Richard Harvey, Rule 73(B), Rule 89, Rule 92 quater Comments closed
ICTY: Karadzic: Srebrenica Survivor Testifies About Killings
2010-04-26, The Hague, The Netherlands. A protected OTP witness testified about escaping Srebrenica before RS forces reached it, but later surrendering to them when called to do so. According to the witness, in Sandici, the prisoners were addressed by Mladic who promised that they would not be hurt. He testified, however, that on July 13 and [...]
Posted in ICTY Tagged Bratunac, cross-examination, genocide, Mladic, Orahovac, protected witness, RS, Sandici, Srebrenica, survivor, testimony, VRS Comments closed
ICTY: Dordevic: Video from Re-Examination Admitted into Evidence
2010-04-22, The Hague, The Netherlands. Despite finding that the video the defence was seeking to admit into evidence had several deficiencies, the Chamber granted the defence motion to admit portions of the video used during re-examination of defence witness Danica Marinkovic on 19 March 2010. The Chamber allowed the admission of the video segments on the [...]
Posted in ICTY Tagged admission, Chester Stamp, Christoph Flugge, Danica Marinkovic, Daniela Kravetz, deficiencies, Dragoljub Dordevic, evidence, IT-05-87/1-T, Kevin Parker, Melville Baird, oral evidence, prima facie reliability, Racak, re-examination, Rule 89(C), Rules of Procedure and Evidence, segments, sufficient indicia, Veljko Durdic, video, Vlasimir Dordevic Comments closed
ICTY: Sljivancanin: Review Hearing Scheduled for June 3
2010-04-20, The Hague, The Netherlands. The Appeals Chamber, by majority, made a decision to hear a testimony of Miodrag Panic. The Defence argues that his testimony will invalidate Sljivancanin’s conviction for aiding and abetting murder as a war crime. The issue of whether the evidentiary hearing itself is justified (on the ground that the testimony [...]
Posted in ICTY Tagged aiding and abetting, Andresia Vaz, evidentiary hearing, Fausto Pocar, finality of judgments, flood gate concern, IT-95-13/1-R.1, Liu Daqun, Mehmet Guney, murder, new fact, Novak Lukic, Peter Kremer, reconsideration, review, Rule 107, Rule 119, Rule 54, Rules of Procedure and Evidence, Stephane Bourgon, Theodor Meron, Veselin Sljivancanin Comments closed
ICTY: Submissions of Parties May Constitute Adjudicated Facts