The Niš District Court delayed the trial of Miloš Simonović, an active police officer, and Dragiša Marković, a former reservist of the Serbian Ministry of Interior from Belgrade for the third time because the defendant Simonović, who is on provisional release, did not respond to the subpoena.
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The War Crimes Chamber rendered a judgment on 28 January 2009 in the retrial of Aleksandar Medić for abetting the commission of criminal act of war crime against civilian population pursuant to Article 142 Section 1 in relation to Article 24 of the Criminal Code of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This criminal act was committed in July 1995 in Godinjske bare, a place located in the vicinity of Trnovo on the Treskavica Mountain.
We express our concern and strong protest against yet another attempt to choke liberal thought manifested in the latest assault at Pescanik /Hourglass/ – interference in radio waves of B92 airing the Pescanik talk show and sabotage of the production’s website.
Human rights organizations call upon the Parliament of Serbia to support the European Parliament Resolution on declaring 11 July a day of commemoration of the Srebrenica genocide and thereby show respect for, and acknowledge, the victims of the most serious crime of all crimes and initiate a process of a joint effort to build memory, which would include all victims of war crimes committed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia.
The Humanitarian Law Center believes that the Niš District Court, which is conducting the trial of Miloš Simonović, an active police officer, and Dragiša Marković, a former reserve officer in the Serbian Ministry of Interior, for the criminal offence of murder of an Albanian [during the armed conflict in Kosovo – added by HLC] is being unnecessarily stalled, thus preventing justice from being served.
On 18 December 2008, the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) received a judgement rendered by the First Municipal Court in Belgrade, which obliges the Serbia to pay 185,000 RSD to Albert Nebih Domanek/Damanek [Glogoac/Gllogovc municipality] and Skender Isufi from Novo Čikatovo/Qikatove e Re [Glogovac/Gllogovc municipality] each for the state’s responsibility for the illegal detention of Albert Nebih and Skender Isufi of six and 11 months respectively in 1999 and 2000.
The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) has conducted an investigation into the deaths of Ljiljana Salim and Mirjana Paunović, wards of the Special Care Institute in Štimlje, Kosovo, and in response to the allegations of illegal organ trafficking, published in articles in Politika (11, 15, 16 and 22 November 2008), Večernje novosti (22 November 2008) and Kurir journals (11 November 2008), HLC has established that both of these women, who were living with severe mental disabilities, died of natural causes and were not victims of organ trafficking.