The Guardian
UNITED Nations investigators tracking one of the most notorious killers in the Rwandan genocide believe he is hiding in Zimbabwe and are launching a new effort to convince authorities in Harare to allow the 60-year-old fugitive to face trial.
Protais Mpiranya, the former commander of the presidential guard of the Rwandan army, has been on the run for 27 years charged with war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity.
The ex-soldier is top of a list of remaining fugitives indicted by an international tribunal into the 1994 killings, which left 800,000 people dead in Rwanda, mostly from the Tutsi ethnic minority but also some Hutus.
Closing arguments in Jovica Stanisic Case for War Crimes to take place on April 12th April 6, 2021 12:15 PM by Y.Z
The closing arguments in the case of
Prosecutor v. Jovica Stanišić and Franko Simatović before the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism) will take place on Monday, 12 April 2021, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 and Wednesday, 14 April 2021 in the Courtroom of the Mechanism’s Hague branch, pursuant to the Scheduling Order issued by the Trial Chamber on 18 March 2021.
The Prosecution will have four hours to present its closing arguments. The Defence teams will have five hours in total for the presentation of their closing arguments, equally divided between them, unless both Defence teams agree otherwise. The Prosecution will have one hour for rebuttal arguments and the Defence teams will have one hour in total for rejoinder arguments.
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The Tartu County Court on Tuesday discussed the release from prison of Dragomir Milošević and Milan Martić, war criminals serving jail sentences in Tartu Prison, under electronic surveillance, but both the prosecutor s office and the prison opposed their release.
The issue of the early conditional release of both men was discussed in the county court, but in separate hearings. The court examined the views of the prison and the prosecutor s office and heard the convicts.
In both cases, Tartu Prison did not support the early conditional release of the prisoner under electronic surveillance. The prison would only support this if the convicted person is deported or handed over to a foreign country. The prosecutor s office also did not support the early release of the men.
Bosnia-Herzegovina: 25 years after the end of the conflict COVID-19 brings additional uncertainty for the families of the missing
In 2020, Bosnia-Herzegovina marked the 25th anniversary of the Dayton Peace Agreement and the end of the 1992-1995 conflict, which left the country with devastating consequences. Over 100,000 people have died and tens of thousands went missing as a result of the war. Over 7,000 of them are still unaccounted for.
Bosnia-Herzegovina has been harshly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The country was in a strict lockdown for several months, and later on, the society had to adapt to the mid and long-term consequences of the pandemic. This also meant that the work of the Missing Persons Institute (MPI) and its efforts to find missing people were temporarily suspended in the first half of the year. Still, 70 persons were exhumed and 52 persons identified in 2020, according to official MPI statistics.