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Article: ICTY: Defence case manager sentenced for bribes
Jelena Rašić, who was part of a defence team before the ICTY, has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for bribing a man to make a false statement in exchange for €1,000 cash; her sentence was suspended. [related-articles]Ra...
Article: Cuska - a “brave and patriotic” trial
It was a sign of changing times in Serbia at the end of December 2011, when Deputy War Crimes Prosecutor Bruno Vekaric told journalists that an insider witness testimony describing atrocities against Kosovo Albanian civilians committed by...
Article: France will not send Hartmann to ICTY
France will not arrest Florence Hartmann, former spokeswoman at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, to face jail for contempt, the foreign ministry said Monday. [related-articles]Hartmann, a French national, was...
Article: Mladic’s war-time diaries – the sting in the tale
As a soldier, General Ratko Mladic had a habit of meticulously recording each and every meeting he attended during the war in Bosnia from 1992-95. His notes, the so-called “Mladic diaries”, may well turn out to be the single...
Article: ICTY contempt - another guilty witness
Dragomir Pećanac has been sentenced to three months in prison by judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for contempt of court. [related-articles]The former Security and Intelligence Officer of the...
Article: Mladic: trial to start in 3 months
The trial of Ratko Mladic, the former military commander of the Bosnian Serbs charged with genocide and war crimes during the 1992-95 Bosnian war, could begin by March 2012. [related-articles]Speaking at an ICTY hearing monitoring the...
Article: Haradinaj: much a retrial for nothing?
The primary purpose of the retrial of Ramush Haradinaj, as proclaimed by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in its appeal judgement in July, should have been to hear testimonies of two “key” witnesses...
Article: ICTY: Mladic indictment to be slashed
The number of specific counts in the indictment against Bosnian Serb ex-army chief Ratko Mladic will be slashed to 106 from 196, the ICTY announced on Friday. "The chamber adopts the prosecution's proposals in respect of the reduction...
Article: Hartmann - degrading punishment?
Seven days in prison as punishment for contempt of court. That's the order from the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia against Florence Hartmann, former press attaché to the ICTY...
Article: No Bosnia-Serbia cooperation
The signing of a protocol on cooperation between the State Prosecutor's Offices of Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in the prosecution of war crimes has been cancelled, the spokesman for the Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor's Office, Bruno...
