7 minutes agoUS bans entry on two former Serbian deputies wanted to manipulate witnesses in The Hague
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(3 years ago)US officials have said on Friday they would refuse entry for the two former Serbian ultra-nationalist MPs wanted by a UN court for witness intervention in a trial for crimes against humanity. State Department said it was appointing Vjelica Radeta and Petar Jojiqi according to one [...]
The State Department said it was appointing Vjelica Radeta and Petar Jojicin under a law banning access to the United States to people involved in considerable corruption, writes French24.com, broadcasts Krankosova.tv.
The UN “states continue to stay with all Serbs in support of democracy and rule of law and will continue to promote accountability for those who abuse public power for personal gain,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement.
Radeta and Jojiq served as lawyers for Serbian radical Vojislav Seselj, who was convicted of inciting persecution through an anti-Croatian speech in the early 1990s, while the region entered civil war.
The then International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague in January 2015 issued arrest warrants for Radeta and Jojiqi for allegedly threatening and offering bribes with two witnesses in cases involving Scheel.
Serbia has refused to extradite them. Sezel was sentenced by UN judges in 2018 to 10 years in prison, but he was released because of the time he had already suffered in custody.
