Criminal Justice

The Belgrade District Court War Crimes Chamber verdict rendered on 10 April 2007 against indicted members of the Scorpions Unit for the execution of six...

13.04.2007.

Bulletin: War Crimes Trials in Serbia

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11.01.2007.

The decision of the Supreme Court to overturn the first instance ruling in the Ovčara case has no legal or factual grounds. The Supreme Court...

16.12.2006.

The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) filed criminal charges at the Office of the District Prosecutor in Užice related to an armed attack on the Muslim...

25.10.2006.

The War Crimes Chamber of the Belgrade District Court, presided by judge Olivera Andjelkovic, in a Decision of September 18, 2006, found Anton Lekaj, a...

23.09.2006.

The Humanitarian Law Center sent a letter of request to Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica to dismiss Mileta Novakovic, a member of Gendarmerie special unit, from...

30.06.2006.

The Serbian Supreme Court verified on 18 May 2006 the verdict handed down by the Belgrade District Court, by which four members of the “Osvetnici”...

20.05.2006.

The Humanitarian Law Center addressed a letter to the War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukčević on 3 February 2006 demanding that he opens investigation on the...

03.02.2006.

On 23 January 2006 the Humanitarian Law Center demanded that the Republic of Serbia Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica remove the War Crimes Investigation Department Chief...

23.01.2006.

The confession of the defendant, Ivan Atanasijević, at the trial of 16 persons accused of war crime against prisoners of war committed at the Ovčara...

18.11.2005.

The draft of a Declaration on Srebrenica put forth to the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia by the following non-governmental organizations: Lawyers’ Committee...

27.05.2005.

The Humanitarian Law Center addressed a letter to the SCG (Serbia and Montenegro) and Montenegrin Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Vuk Drašković and Miodrag Vlahović, demanding...

04.01.2004.

The trial of Milan Lukić, Oliver Krsmanović, Dragutin Dragićević and Djordje Šević, who are accused of a war crime against the civilian population under Article...

17.05.2003.

On 11 October this year, the Military Court in Niš, central Serbia, handed down the first ruling in a case of a war crime committed...

15.10.2002.

The District Court in Prizren on 4 September 2002 acquitted for lack of evidence Kosovo Serb Sasa Grkovic of several counts of war crimes against...

05.09.2002.

The Humanitarian Law Center is pleased to note that the recent conviction of Ivan Nikolic puts an end to the longstanding practice of allowing war...

12.07.2002.