On the occasion of the International Day of Missing Persons, the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) calls upon the institutions of the Republic of Serbia to find the location of remaining mass graves and to ratify the international Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. HLC calls upon the institutions of Kosovo and other post-Yugoslav states to make public the location of the remaining secret mass and individual graves and to enable the families of the victims to give their loved ones proper burials....

On August 23, 2010 the Humanitarian Law Center filed with the Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor of the Republic of Serbia a criminal complaint against an unidentified number of members of the former Yugoslav Army (VJ), members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Serbia (MUP Serbia), and members of criminal groups operating under the control of VJ and MUP Serbia for their responsibility for for war crimes committed against Albanians in the villages of Plavljane/Pavlan, Zahać/Zahaq, and other surrounding villages and settlements in the Peć/Pejë municipality during 1998 and 1999....

Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) filed a criminal complaint with the Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor of the Republic of Serbia against an unspecified number of members of the former Army of the Republika Srpska (VRS), believed to be responsible for committing a criminal act of genocide against over 1800 Bosnian Muslims from Srebrenica in July 1995....

NGO Statement on the occasion of physical attacks on journalists Theofil Pančić...

On May 28, 2010 Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) filed a compensation lawsuit with the Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor of the Republic of Serbia against 34 individuals on charges of their personal responsibility for the murder of 90 and the wounding of over 150 Albanian prisoners in the KPZ Dubrava penitentiary, near Istok in Kosovo (hereinafter referred to as: KPZ Dubrava)....

Belgrade, July 1, 2010 – Members of Parliament Kenan Hajdarević, Bajram Šehović, Esad Džudžević, Munir Poturak, and Šerif Hamzagić attended today’s session of the compensation lawsuit filed by the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) and conducted before the Belgrade High Court on behalf of the residents of the Kukurovići village (Priboj municipality) against the Republic of Serbia....

A mixed Trial Chamber of the District Court in Priština, presided by the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) appointed Justice Ferdinando Boatier de Mongeot, handed down a sentence on June 14, 2010 sentencing Albin Kurti, leader of the Samopredeljenje/Vetëvendosje movement to nine (9) months in prison for a criminal act of being a member of a group obstructing a law enforcement officer, Article 318, paragraphs 1 and 2 of the Provisional Criminal Code of Kosovo. The accused Albin Kurti was immediately released from detention due to the fact that he had spent eleven (11) months in prison and in house-arrest in the course of 2007 and at the beginning of 2008, which is more than the prison sentence determined by the Trial Chamber....

On Monday May 17th 2010 Beta News Agency published a press release by the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia informing the public about their decision to cancel their membership with the “commission for RECOM”. On the same occasion, in an interview for the Daily Avaz, Sonja Biserko, president of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, explains the decision in detail saying: “We have thought from the beginning that Serbia should have formed its national commission first and that the regional concept should have been developed after that.”...

The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) believes that the First Municipal Court’s Decision ordering Republic of Serbia (RS) to pay RSD 160.000 to Sead Rovčanin for torture suffered in 1993 is an insult and does not constitute proper satisfaction for the ordeal Rovčanin was subjected to......

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