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Court of appeal in Belgrade denied Munir Šabotić, a victim of police torture, right to just compensation

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BELGRADE, November 28th, 2011 – Jahir Krasniqi and Jakup Tahiri, victims of unlawful detention in 1999, gave statements on Monday, November 28th, 2011 before the First Basic Court in Belgrade in a compensation lawsuit that HLC initiated against the Republic of Serbia because of its responsibility for torture and unlawful detention. Jahir Krasniqi and Jakup Tahiri testified about the torture and unlawful detention they were subjected to in Serbian prisons in the period from 1999 to 2000 and medical consequences that they still suffer due to this torture.


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Representatives of the Humanitarian Law Center Lay Wreath For Victims from Borovo Naselje

pic_13VUKOVAR, November 19th, 2011. The City of Vukovar and the “Vukovar Mothers” Association of Victims’ Parents and Family Members organized the 20th annual commemoration of the victims from Borovo Naselje on Saturday, November 19th . The commemoration programme began with an address by the President of the “Vukovar Mothers” Association, Manda Patko, in front of the ruins of the “Borovo– Commerce” centre located inside the area of the “Borovo” Factory, after which wreaths were laid and candles lit in memory of the victims who died during the defence of Borovo Naselje.


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The Kosovo Memory Book presented at the New School in New York

On November 15, 2011, at the New School for Social Research in New York, Natasa Kandic presented the first volume of theKosovo Memory Book to a number of students and representatives from the Consulate General of Kosovo and the American Council for Kosovo. The book contains the life narratives of 2,050 people who were killed, died or disappeared during the war in Kosovo in 1998. The audience strongly welcomed the publication of the list of all human losses in Kosovo. In registering the names of all casualties, the book is an instrument that has the potential to prevent the manipulation of numbers and denial of crimes.

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HLC Archive Included in the Human Rights Archives Directory

ICAOn Monday, November 14th, 2011, the Humanitarian Law Center was informed that the HLC Archive has been included in the Human Rights Archives Directory (HRAD), a project of the International Council of Archives (ICA).


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Additional evidence for camps in Vojvodina

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BELGRADE, November 10th, 2011 – Today, Vukovar 1991 Lawyers’ Association submitted an order issued by the former Yugoslav Peoples’ Army Security Department on October 10th, 1991 on the establishment of a camp in Stara Gradiška, to the War Crimes Prosecutor of Serbia, Vladimir Vukčević, as an annex to the criminal complaint filed in May 2008. As the President of the Association, Zoran Šugut, stated for the press, “camps Begejci, Stajićevo, Sremska Mitrovica, Niš, and Belgrade were also established on the basis of this order issued by the Department”, under the command of GeneralAleksandar Vasiljević.

 

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Artists from Kosovo visited HLC

BELGRADE, October 30th, 2011 – Group of four young artists from Kosovo visited Humanitarian Law Center last Sunday and there met with Sandra Orlović, Deputy Executive Director of HLC.


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