Rrahman Elshani and Bekim Istogu gave their statements before the First Primary Court in Belgrade on Monday, May 21st, 2012 in the compensation lawsuit against the Republic of Serbia initiated because of its liability for unlawful detention and torture that these persons suffered during the years of 1999 and 2000. The HLC initiated the proceedings on behalf of Elshani and Istogu on April 26th, 2010.
Students from Kosovo, who attend the Young Leaders School organized by the Youth Initiative for Human Rights from Priština/Prishtinë visited the Humanitarian Law Center on April 17th, 2012. They talked to Marijana Toma, who manages the Transitional Justice Education programme, and Dušan Jovanović, a member of the HLC team working on the identification of perpetrators of war crimes.
A group of students from The New School for Public Engagement from New York visited the Humanitarian Law Center. The students will stay in the region for two months during which they will do internships in non-governmental organizations and state institutions in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Albania. Sandra Orlović, the HLC Deputy Executive Director, Dušan Jovanović, a member of the HLC team working on the identification of perpetrators of war crimes, and Katarina Janković, who is in charge of the HLC Outreach activities, talked to the students.
A group of EULEX prosecutors and investigators for war crimes and organized crime visited the Humanitarian Law Center today. Nataša Kandić, the Executive Director of the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC), presented the work of the HLC in her opening address. The HLC also presented the Kosovo Memory Book, the Report on War Crimes Trials in Serbia in 2011, and Ljubiša Diković Dossier to the EULEX representatives. Upon the request of the EULEX representatives, the HLC handed them certain information relevant to the investigation of a case of war crime, and they also discussed future cooperation with regard to other cases.