Since 1 September 2006, the Humanitarian Law Center has initiated 11 compensation lawsuits on behalf of Bosniaks from the Sandzak because of violations of their fundamental human rights in the period 1992-1995 and in 2001.
The Humanitarian Law Center, the Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights, the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, Center for Cultural Decontamination, Women in Black, and Youth Initiative for Human Rights have sent a letter to the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Serbia, Dušan Petrović, asking him to make public the transcript of an intercepted communication of NATO pilots with their base.
Nongovernmental organizations from Serbia, the Humanitarian Law Center, Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights – YUCOM, Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, Youth Initiative for Human Rights, Women in Black, and Center for Cultural Decontamination, are pointing out that they are very worried about the assault of journalist Željko Ivanović, Director and one of the founders of the independent Montenegrin Vijesti Daily. They are demanding that Montenegrin authorities should support the media whose primary duty is to analyze critically the authorities and their acts.
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The arrest of the former District Prosecutor Rade Terzić in Belgrade is a part of a well organized campaign directed against assassinated Serbia’s Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić, launched soon after the judgment was passed in the trial of his assassins. The goal of this campaign is to eliminate and ridicule the request of injured party’s representatives and a part of the democratic public in Serbia to establish the political motive of the murder of the Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić, which the Prosecution in this case obviously purposely failed to do.
The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) believes that the proposal made by Carla del Ponte, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), supported by Vladimir Vukčević, Serbia’s War Crimes Prosecutor, Rasim Ljajić, president of the National Council for the Cooperation with ICTY, and Vojislav Koštunica, Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia to create conditions for those indicted by the ICTY in the future to serve their prison sentences in countries of their citizenship is still premature.
The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC), Research and Documentation Center (RDC), and Documenta are facilitating a process of regional consultation with civil society on instruments for truth-seeking and truth-telling on war crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia.
Within the scope of its program offering support to victims of human rights abuses committed in the past in exercising their right to reparation, the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) filed two compensation lawsuits against the Republic of Serbia (RS) at the First Municipal Court on behalf of Sabit Bibić from Sjenica who was tortured by Sjenica Internal Affairs Department (OUP) police officers in December 1993, and on behalf of Fehrat Suljić, a Bosniak who was abused by OUP Tutin police officers in February 1996.