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.


Our Priorities

It is easier to breathe in Serbia now. I recently saw a policeman beating a hasty retreat down the street, running as if his life was at stake. The young man he was running from explained to bypassers that he had done nothing to the policeman, merely asked how come he felt free to walk around in public. People laughed and said, “Right, we’ll show them we are the boss now.”


Memorandum o albanskim političkim zatvorencima u Srbiji

Fond za humanitarno pravo

Human Rights Watch

Ovaj memorandum se bavi pitanjem kosovskih Albanaca – političkih zatvorenika – u Srbiji. Novi predsednik Jugoslavije Vojislav Koštunica obavezao se da će poštovati ljudska prava i raditi na uspostavljanju vladavine prava u Jugoslaviji. Ispravljanje slučajeva u kojima je pravda izostala, poput slučajeva zatvorenih kosovskih Albanaca, pokazalo bi rešenost da se ovo obećanje ispuni.

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.

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.

Natasa Kandic awarded “Pen of truth”

Natasa Kandic, Executive Director of the Humanitarian Law Center, is the recipient of this year’s Pen of Truth award of the HAS magazine and Damad Cultural Center in Novi Pazar.

Previous laureates of the award, given for results achieved in affirming truth and democracy in society, are authors Milika Pavlovic and Husein Basic, and Sefko Alomerovic, the Chairman of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in the Sandjak.

The plaque and cash prize will be presented to Ms Kandic at a ceremony in Novi Pazar later this month.

Natasa Kandic Receives Northcote Parkinson Fund’s Civic Courage Award

Natasa Kandic, founder and executive director of the Belgrade Humanitarian Law Center, received the Civic Courage Award established this year by the US Northcote Parkinson Fund.  The award, which is given to persons “who resisted evil in spite of great risk,” was presented to Ms Kandic on 26 September at the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London.  The award includes a cash prize of 50,000 US dollars.

A special Northcote Parkinson cash prize will be presented to Sergei Khodorovich, formerly of the Russian Social Fund, an organization established by the famous Russian writer and dissident, Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

The award was given posthumously to German Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a victim of Nazism, Judge Giovanni Falcone for his unflinching struggle against the Sicilian mafia, attorney Rosemary Nelson, who was assassinated while defending political prisoners in Northern Ireland, Neelan Tiruchelvam, a Sri Lankan peace activist who was killed by extremists last year, and Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved many Jews from Nazi persecution.

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