The case is widely seen as the last opportunity to hold the Serbian government accountable for war crimes, as the country’s former president died before his trial was complete.
A man stands by a monument dedicated to people tortured and killed during the Bosnian War by Serbian forces after they occupied the neighborhood of Grbavica in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. (Courthouse News photo/Cain Burdeau)
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (CN) Prosecution and defense lawyers laid out their final arguments Wednesday in the retrial of two top former Serbian secret police officers charged with murdering and deporting non-Serbs from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s.
Two former high-ranking Serbian security officers are accused of committing crimes against humanity during the Bosnian War.
Jovica Stanisic, left, and Franko Simatovic appear before the United Nations Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2017. (Photo courtesy of U.N. MICT via Courthouse News)
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (CN) The prosecution delivered its closing statements Monday in a retrial of two top former Serbian secret police officers, arguing they should be convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity despite an earlier acquittal.
Jovica Stanisic, former head of the Serbian State Security Service, and his top deputy Franko Simatovic were acquitted in 2013 on charges of murder and illegal deportations of non-Serbs during violent conflicts in the Balkans in the 1990s, but an appeals court ordered a new trial two years later.
UN tribunal denies early release to Rwanda genocide mastermind
5 April 2021By AFP
1 min 5Approximate reading time A UN tribunal in Tanzania has denied a request for early release by a man considered the mastermind of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda that left some 800,000 dead. Theoneste Bagosora, 79, was in 2008 sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes by the former International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). However his sentence was reduced to 35 years on appeal in 2011. Bagosora, who is imprisoned in Mali, made the request for early release in March 2019, which several genocide convicts have been granted after serving two thirds of their sentence.
An international tribunal for Rwanda has turned down a request for the early release of Theoneste Bagosora, a man some consider the mastermind behind the 1994 genocide that killed some 800,000 people…