5 hours agoAct against Mladic criminals, Stanisic and Simatovic, in early 2021
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)The president of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Carmel Adjius, declared today before the UN Security Council in New York that the two remaining judgments of people charged with crimes in the former Yugoslavia will be concluded in the first part of next year. Presenting a regular half-year report on the work [...]
The president of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Carmel Adjius, declared today before the UN Security Council in New York that the two remaining judgments of people charged with crimes in the former Yugoslavia will be concluded in the first part of next year.
Presenting a regular semi-year report on the work of the Judiciary Mechanism in The Hague, Hague tribunal's legal successor, Judge Adjius, said today that delays in trials against Ratko Mladic, Jovica Stanisic and Franco Simatovovic Frankie were due to the body of the Corona virus.
Adjius earlier announced before the Security Council that the formal form act against Mladic and the first-instance act against Stanisic and Simatovic would be issued by the end of this year.
The court's president informed the Security Council that the hearing hearings for complaints against the first degree act against Mladic was postponed in March, after it was operated, and then in June due to restrictions in motion due to corruption.
Still no new deadline for hearing complaints has been set.
The Hague tribunal sentenced Mladic, 78-year-old, former commander of the Republika Srpska Army in Bosnia, to genocide of Muslims in Srebrenica, and taking U members hostage NPROFOR, 1992-95.
The president of the Mechanism showed to the UN Security Council that Stanisic and Simatovic's retrial in The Hague could continue 7 July.
Adjius recalled that due to the corona virus, the trial was interrupted amid the promotional procedure for protecting the second indictee Simatovic.
All witnesses should be heard by the end of this year. The first degree act is expected by April 2021 “, Adjius said.
Stanisic, 69, a former head of the Serbian State Security Service and Simatovic, (69), his main operative, is accused of persecution, murder, violent transfer and expulsion of Croats and Muslims to Croatia and BiH during 1991-95.
After the first trial, The Hague tribunal released them in 2013, but in 2015, the court of appeal, with the appeal of prosecutors, annulled the sentence and ordered a new trial.
