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Pavicevic found guilty of murdering three Kosovo Albanians, Gligorovski acquitted

The District Court in Kosovska Mitrovica on 16 November found Nenad Pavicevic guilty of murdering three members of the Hajrizi family and sentenced him to 20 years in prison. Co-defendant Lazar Gligorovski was acquitted of the charge of murder because of lack of evidence. The panel, presided by Judge Mahmut Halimi and including international judge Christer Karphammer, gave Gligorovski a two-year suspended sentence for illegal possession of firearms. Gligorovski was arrested a year ago while Pavicevic was tried in absentia.


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Trial of Kosovo serbs for genocide resumed

The trial of two Kosovo Serbs, Miroslav Vuckovic and Bozur Bisevac, on the charge of genocide resumed before the District Court in Kosovska Mitrovica on 13 November.  The Humanitarian Law Center is observing all trials for ethnically motivated crimes in Kosovo. The panel, presided by Judge Mahmut Halimi and including international judge Christer Karphammer, is to establish whether the defendants committed the criminal offense charged by Prosecutor Jusuf Mejzini: deliberate and planned torching of villages and killing of Albanian civilians with the aim of partly or completely destroying the ethnic Albanian community.  Bisevac is being tried in absentia.


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Two kosovo Serbs on trial for genocide

The trial of two Kosovo Serbs, Miroslav Vuckovic and Bozur Bisevac, for genocide resumes before the District Court in Kosovska Mitrovica on Tuesday, 31 October. Bisevac is being tried in absentia. According to the indictment, Vuckovic and Bisevac and other unidentified persons forced the ethnic Albanian inhabitants of Suvi Do and Gusgevac villages to leave their homes by shooting off firearms. They are also charged with looting and torching Albanian houses and the murder of Hazire Sahiti, an elderly woman, whose house they allegedly set afire “even though they were aware she was inside.” In the indictment broght on 11 November last year, the prosecutor proposed the calling of 25 witnesses. The five witnesses heard so far accused Vuckovic and Bisevac of crimes not cited in the indictment, including torture and killing of civilians.Counsel for the defense – Miodrag Brkljac, Miro Delevic, Zoran Janicijevic and Ljubomir Pantovic – pointed to the contradictory testimonies of the witnesses, some of which conflicted with the statements they made during the investigation.


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Odlaganje suđenja Flori Brovini je opstrukcija rada suda

Fond za humanitarno pravo (FHP) najoštrije protestuje zbog naopravdanog odlaganja suđenja Flori Brovini i njenog daljeg zadržavanja u pritvoru. Na današnjem pretresu nisu se pojavili predsednik Sudskog veća, sudija Marina Milanović i član veća, sudija Dragoljub Zdravković, oboje sa Kosova. Branioci Flore Brovine zatražili su njihove izuzeće zbog opstrukcije rada sudskih organa i pristrasnosti.

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Suđenje Brovini 12. okotobra

Suđenje albanskoj lekarki i pesnikinji Flori Brovini održaće se 12. oktobra pred Okružnim sudom u Nišu.
Brovina je prvobitnom presudom tog suda u decembru prošle godine osuđena na 12 godina zatvora zbog udruživanja radi neprijateljske delatnosti u vezi sa krivičnim delom terorizma.

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