EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Debate regarding the presentation of the Report on War Crimes Trials 2014-15

On Thursday March 3^rd 2016 the Humanitarian Law Center will organize a debate regarding the presentation of the Report on War Crimes Trials 2014-15. The debate will take place in Media Center in Belgrade at 12:00.

The Report encompasses analyses of 27 cases monitored by the HLC’s team before the war crimes departments of the Higher Court and the Court of Appeals in Belgrade, as well as before the courts of general jurisdiction. The Report also contains an overview of general findings regarding war crimes trials held during 2014 and 2015, as well as important social and political events relevant to war crimes trials in Serbia.

Representatives of the Office of the Public Prosecutor of the Republic of Serbia, judges of the Higher Court and the Courts of Appeals in Belgrade, Prokuplje, Požarevac and Niš, representatives from the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of the Interior, attorneys, representatives of non-governmental organizations, journalists, the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection , the Ombudsman, representatives of the Office for Human and Minority Rights, representatives of the Delegation of the European Commission in Belgrade, the ICTY, the Council of Europe, EULEX, and embassies have been invited to attend the debate.

The agenda of the event is available here.