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Israel: Cvetkovic: District Court Allows Extradition to Face Genocide Charges
2011-08-01, Jerusalem, Israel. The District Court of Jerusalem authorized extradition of Aleksandar Cvetković to Bosnia and Herzegovina to face genocide charges. He now has 30 days to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court of Israel. If extradited, he will be prosecuted before the War Crimes Section of the BiH Court in Sarajevo on charges arising [...]
Posted in BiH WCS, Domestic Courts Also tagged Aleksandar Cvetkovic, appeal, BiH, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian Muslims, Branjevo farm, charges, citizen, citizenship, District Court, extradition, genocide, genocide charges, immigration, Israel, Jerusalem, July 1995, Main Headquarters, Nick Kaufman, Pilica, Republika Srpska Army, Srebrenica, Supreme Court of Israel, Tenth Reconnaissance Squad, War Crimes Section, Zvornik municipality 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 Also 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, siege, Sokolac, Srebrenica, Srebrenica genocide, Teslic, Trnovo, UN personnel, war crimes Comments closed
ECHR: Swiss NGO Files 3 Applications Re Enforced Disappearances and Killings in Prijedor in 1992
2010-04-30, Strasbourg, France. TRIAL (Track Impunity Always), a Swiss NGO, filed three applications against BiH with the European Court of Human Rights: Fikret Bacic v. BiH, Zijad Bacic v. BiH and Horozovic v. BiH. The applications arise from the killings of Bacic and Horozovic families, and the enforced disappearance of Refik Bacic, perpetrated by Serb [...]
Posted in ECHR Also tagged ACT, Advocacy Center – TRIAL, application, Article 13, Article 3, Article 5, Articles 1, Articles 2, BiH Fikret Bacic, criminal proceedings, enforced disappearance, European Convention on Human Rights, France, Hidajet murder, Investigation, NGO, obligation to respect human rights, Prijedor, prohibition of torture, Refik Bacic, right to an effective remedy, right to life, right to personal liberty, Strasbourg, Switzerland, Track Impunity Always, TRIAL, Zecovi, Zijad Bacic Comments closed
BiH WCS: Stupar: Aquittal Entered Due to Lack of Evidence
2010-05-06, Sarajevo, BiH. The Appellate Division of the War Crimes Section of the Court of BiH acquitted Milos Stupar of genocide charges. The judges found that he was not a commanding officer at the time when the killings at Srebrenica took place and, hence, was not in a position to prevent the killings. He was originally [...]
Posted in BiH WCS Also tagged 2nd Sekovici Detachment, Appellate Division, Article 171 (a), Article 180 (2), Article 297 (1) (k), Azra Mileti?, BiH, commanding officer, Criminal Code, genocide, Ibro Buli?, incomprehensible, indictment, John Fields, Kravica, Milos Stupar, Ozrenka Jaksic, prevent, punish, Radivoje Lazarevic, reasonable doubt, Special Police, Srebrenica genocide, Srebrenica necessary and reasonable measures, Tihomir Lukes, verdict, War Crimes Section, warehouse, X-KRZ-05/24-3 Comments closed
UK: Ganic’s Extradition Hearing Set for July
2010-04-20, London, UK. Judge Timothy Workman of the Westminster Magistrates Court set the extradition hearing for July 5-9, 2010. He also set May 18 and June 15 deadlines for defence’s and prosecution’s submissions. Mr. Ganic is held on an extradition request from Serbia that claims that he committed war crimes by authorizing an attack on JNA troops that [...]
Posted in Domestic Courts Also tagged abduction, Alija Izetbegovic, Dobrovoljacka Street, Ejup Ganic, extradition, hearing, JNA, P.J. Crowley, scheduling, Timothy Workman, war crimes, Westminster Magistrates Court Comments closed
ICTY: Karadzic: 2nd OTP Witness Testifies
2010-04-14 & 15, The Hague, The Netherlands. Sulejman Crncalo testified that he has heard Karadzic saying in Pale that Muslim houses should be attacked to save Serb houses. He could not however explain why this particular public speech was never reported. The witness also testified about being expelled from Pale and about the shelling of [...]
Posted in ICTY Also tagged evacuation, exchange, Markale, market, Pale, Radovan Karadzic, shelling, Sulejman Crncalo Comments closed
UK: Ganic’s Extradition Hearing Today
2010-04-13, London, UK. Ganic will appear today before the Magistrate’s Court in London in respect of the Serbian government’s extradition request charging him with war crimes. A Serbian war crimes prosecutor will be also present at the hearing. Ganic was arrested on March 1, and was released on bail on the 11th. Balkan Insight |
Posted in Domestic Courts Also tagged BiH, Clare Montgomery, Damir Arnaut, Dobrovoljacka Street, Ejup Ganic, extradition, JNA convoy, London, Magistrate Court, Matrix Chambers, Quentin Purdy, security payment, Serbia, surety, UK, University of Buckingham, war crimes, Yugoslav People's Army Comments closed
Spain: Batko to be Extradited … Somewhere
2010-04-09, Madrid, Spain. The Spanish government made a decision to extradite Veselin Vlahovic aka Batko. He is facing war crimes charges in BiH, for murders committed in Sarajevo’s Grbavici neighbourhood; Serbia, where he was convicted of a murder in 2001, and Montenegro, where he was convicted for a violent crime and later escaped from detention. The government, [...]
Posted in Domestic Courts Also tagged Batko, BiH, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Grbavici, international arrest warrant, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Montenegro, Novi Sad, Serbia, Spain, Veselin Vlahovic, war crimes Comments closed
Israel: Cvetkovic: Supreme Court Upheld the Decision to Extradite on Genocide Charges