On the decision of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia to withdraw from the Coalition for RECOM

On Monday May 17th 2010 Beta News Agency published a press release by the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia informing the public about their decision to cancel their membership with the “commission for RECOM”.


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First Municipal Court’s Decision: Republic of Serbia ordered to pay RSD 160.000 for torture of Bosniaks in Prijedor in 1993

The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) believes that the First Municipal Court’s Decision ordering Republic of Serbia (RS) to pay RSD 160.000 to Sead Rovčanin for torture suffered in 1993 is an insult and does not constitute proper satisfaction for the ordeal Rovčanin was subjected to.


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The Supreme Court of Kosovo doubled the sentence for Predrag Đorđević, a member of the Car Lazar Guard

A mixed panel of the Supreme Court of Kosovo presided over by Justice Norbert Koster , rendered a decision on May 4, 2010 pronouncing the accused Predrag Đorđević guilty and sentenced him to twelve (12) years and three (3) months in prison for the commission of the criminal acts of instigating national, racial, religious, or ethnic hatred, strife, or intolerance and attempted aggravated murder.


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IN MEMORIAM – Biljana Kovačević-Vučo (1952-2010)

In_memoriam_BKVBiljana Kovačević-Vučo, president of Lawyer’s Committee for Human Rights – YUCOM, passed away this morning in Belgrade.


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The Supreme Court of Cassation Upholds the Decision in the Dejan Petrović Compensation Lawsuit

BELGRADE – The Supreme Court of Cassation in Belgrade denied the request of the Republic of Serbia to revise a decision handed down by the District Court in Belgrade confirming the first instance decision of the First Municipal Court, which orders the Republic of Serbia to pay one million RSD in non-pecuniary damages each to Radmila and Dragomir Petrović from Belgrade for their emotional suffering caused by the death of their son, Dejan Petrović, who died on the premises of the Internal Affairs Department (OUP) of the Vračar municipality.


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Serbia and Srebrenica

February 3rd 2010

The people in Serbia took rather placidly the news about President Tadić’s initiative to ask the Serbian Parliament to adopt a resolution on the recognition of Srebrenica victims. Human rights organizations accepted it, among other things, as a result of many months of their constant pressure and protest directed at state institutions to declare July 11th Victims of Srebrenica Memorial Day.


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The Supreme Court of Kosovo upholds the decision in the Gani Hazeraj case

n January 19, 2010, a mixed panel of the Supreme Court of Kosovë/Kosovo, presided by EULEX-appointed judge Emilio Gatti, upheld the first-instance judgment of the District Court in Prizren sentencing the accused Gani Hazeraj to six (6) months jail sentence suspended for one year for participation in the March 2004 violence in Prizren. The sentence will not be executed if the accused does not commit another criminal offense during the twelve-month period starting on the day the sentence became legally binding.


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