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State obliged to pay damages to torture victim from 1993

On November 5th 2009, the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) received a judgement rendered by the Belgrade First Municipal Court which ordered Serbia to pay 500,000 RSD in damages to Šefket Hukić, a Bosniak from the village of Ugao, in the municipality of Sjenica. Serbia is ordered to pay damages because of its responsibility for the torture suffered by Šefket Hukić at the hands of members of the Sjenica Police Department in December 1993. HLC, within its support programme for victims of past human rights violations, filed a compensation lawsuit against the Republic of Serbia on behalf of Šefket Hukić on April 18th 2007.


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Compensation Lawsuit for Victims from Podujevo Dismissed

The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) lodged an appeal against the judgment of the First Municipal Court in Belgrade rendered on April 28th 2009 that dismissed the HLC’s lawsuit against the Republic of Serbia which HLC had filed on behalf of 14 Albanian victims of a war crime committed by members of the Scorpions – a reserve unit of the Serbian Ministry of Interior.


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Request for Reparation of Family Members of Kidnapped Persons from Sjeverin Denied

On 2 April 2009 the First Municipal Court in Belgrade rendered a judgment by which it rejected the compensation lawsuit filed by the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) against the Republic of Serbia on behalf of 25 family members of the kidnapped residents of Sjeverin.


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