FHP-SS-001 FUND: Court documents from trial of Albanians during the Slobodan Milošević era

PERIOD: 1991 – 2006

PRIMARY SOURCES: District Court in Belgrade – War Crimes Chamber, District Courts in Peć, Priština, Gnjilane, Mitrovica, Prokuplje, Požarevac, Vranje, Zaječar, Kraljevo, Leskovac, Negotin, Kuršumlija, Kladovo and Novi Pazar, Municipal Council of Municipality of Glogovac, Republic of Serbia Ministry of Justice – Belgrade

SCOPE AND MEDIUM:  18 archival boxes

CONTENTS:  The fund contains documents from trials of members of  the Albanian national group during the era of Slobodan Milošević, monitored by researchers and attorneys of the HLC. The trials were conducted on the territory of Serbia and Kosovo. The Fund covers the period from 1991 to the present. The Fund contains court documents (indictments, verdicts, appeals, decisions, records from  examinations of the accused, transcripts of trials, records from examinations of witnesses, official notes, trial reports, memoranda, motions for termination of detention, petitions, certificates, powers of attorney), newspaper articles, photographs, letters written by prisoners, lists of prisoners of war and accompanying documents.

ORGANIZATION SYSTEM:  boxes are organized geographically in accordance with the location of the court (alphabetically), and each case is organized chronologically (by date)

Additions to the Fund are expected

LANGUAGE:  Serbian, Albanian

LIST OF CONTENTS:

Box no. 1

  • Trials of Kosovo Albanians in Serbia and Kosovo before District Court in Belgrade, District Court in Vranje, District Court in Glogovac, District Court in  Gnjilane, District Court in Zaječar, District Court in Kraljevo and District Court in Mitrovica. A total of 38 cases.

Box no. 2

  • Trials of Kosovo Albanians in Serbia before the District Court in Leskovac. A total of 43 cases.

Box no. 3

  • Trials of Kosovo Albanians in Serbia before the District Court in Niš. A total of 20 cases.

Box no. 4

  • Trials of Kosovo Albanians in Serbia before the District Court in Novi Pazar. A total of 1 case.

Box no. 5

  • Trials of Kosovo Albanians in Kosovo before the District Court in Peć. A total of 12 cases.

Box no. 6

  • Trials of Kosovo Albanians in Kosovo before the District Court in Peć. A total of 67 cases.

Box no. 7

  • Trials of Kosovo Albanians in Serbia before the District Court in Požarevac. A total of 13 cases.

Box no. 8

  • Trials of Kosovo Albanians in Serbia and Kosovo before the District Court in Preševo and the District Court in Prizren. A total of 45 cases.

Box no. 9

  • Trials of Kosovo Albanians in Kosovo before the District Court in Priština. A total of 24 cases.

Box no. 10

  • Trials of Kosovo Albanians in Serbia and Kosovo before the District Court in Priština and the District Court in Prokuplje. A total of 11 cases.

Box no. 11

  • Trials of Kosovo Albanians in Serbia and Montenegro, before the District Court in Bijelo Polje, the District Court in Belgrade, the District Court in Kuršumlija, the District Court in Prokuplje, the District Court in Negotin and the District Court in Kladovo. A total of 3 cases.

Box no. 12

  • Powers of attorney, petitions, HLC attorneys’ requests to visit convicts of Albanian nationality in prisons in Serbia, lists of Albanian convicts and the plan of visits of attorneys to district prisons in Belgrade, Smederevo, Niš, Zaječar, Zrenjanin and Ćuprija. A total of 134 cases.
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