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JURIST (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
[JURIST] The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Wednesday affirmed the 2007 conviction of Milan Martic on 16 counts of crimes against humanity and violations of laws and customs of war, including persecutions, murder, torture, deportation, attacks on civilians, and wanton destruction of civilian areas. The Appeals Chamber reversed Martic's convictions...
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JURIST (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
[JURIST] Former Bosnian Serb leader and war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic has requested, in a motion released Monday by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), that prosecutors release information regarding an alleged immunity deal with former US ambassador to the UN Richard Holbrooke. Writing on his own behalf, Karadic said the ICTY's Rules of Procedure and Evidence...
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JURIST (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
[JURIST] The trial of former Yugoslav army chief of staff and general Mom'ilo PeriĀi? began Thursday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague. The trial was scheduled to commence Wednesday but was postponed due to a procedural glitch in the naming of judges; it was restarted after the court received notification from the UN Security Council that the terms...
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Bosnia (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Comment posted on the Greater Surbiton website contrasts the very different fates of Veljko Kadijevic, one of the principal architects of Serbia's war of aggression against Croatia (1991) and Bosnia (1992-5), never indicted by ICTY and now rewarded with Russian citizenship, and Rasim Delic, commander of the Bosnian army 1993-5 and now sentenced by ICTY for 'command responsibility' in failing to punish...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
The Hague - The war crimes trial of Serb General Momcilo Perisic has been postponed, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said Wednesday, shortly before proceedings were due to begin. Now new date has been set. ...
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JURIST (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
[JURIST] Members of the UN Security Council approved a resolution Monday to extend the terms of some judges serving on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to allow them to complete their assigned cases. The resolution, which was unanimously approved, will extend the terms of four Appeals Chamber judges to the end of 2010 and the terms of 10 Trial Chamber judges, 14...
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s o s (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
Q: What do Radovan Karadzic, former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, and George W. Bush have in common? A: Each lives under the slowly growing shadow of a body of international criminal law. This law is evolving towards the ultimate goal of holding even the most powerful leaders personally accountable for crimes committed by the State. It is manifested in international agreements and statutes...
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JURIST (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
[JURIST] Prosecutors in the case of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic filed a motion to amend his indictment in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Tuesday, as was planned earlier this month. The indictment in question was issued in 2000, and contains 11 charges against Karadzic, including genocide, murder, persecution, deportation and "other inhumane acts."...
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UN News Centre (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
Albania signed an agreement today to become the latest European country to enforce the sentences imposed by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which was set up by the United Nations to deal with the worst war crimes committed in the Balkans in the 1990s.
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Institute for War & Peace Reporting (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
No consensus among experts on whether court should look into alleged secret agreement to save him from prosecution. By Simon Jennings in The Hague (TU No 569, 19-Sep-08)
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JURIST (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
[JURIST] Prosecutors told the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Wednesday that they plan to revise the charges against former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic by Monday. Appearing in the war crimes tribunal's Trial Chamber, prosecutor Alan Tieger said he would seek court permission to amend an indictment issued in 2000. He did not specify whether charges would be...
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Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
Radovan Karadzic confirmed Wednesday that he plans to defend himself on all 11 charges against him at the International Criminal Tribunal (ICT) for the former Yugoslavia.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
The Hague - Radovan Karadzic confirmed Wednesday that he plans to defend himself on all 11 charges against him at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. I will defend myself, the former Bosnian Serb leader said in his third ...
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - A new indictment against Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, charged with war crimes in the 1992-95 Bosnian war, will be filed by Monday, prosecutors told a U.N. court on Wednesday.
