Denis Džidić, Author at Detektor

In closing arguments at Ratko Mladic’s trial, the defence said UN prosecutors did not prove the former Bosnian Serb military chief’s forces committed genocide in six Bosnian municipalities in 1992. Mladic’s defence lawyer Dragan Ivetic told the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague on Monday that the prosecutors had not proved that there was a coordinated plan for the commission of genocide in the six municipalities or that the Bosnian Serb Army commander was responsible for persecution and ethnic cleansing there.

Former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic has filed an appeal challenging the Hague Tribunal’s verdict sentencing him to 40 years in prison for genocide and crimes against humanity.

The prosecution in the genocide and war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic will begin its closing statements at the Hague Tribunal on December 5. Four-and-a-half years after the start of Mladic’s trial, the prosecution and defence are to sum up their arguments starting next week, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia said on Wednesday.

Travelers to Europe from non-EU Balkan states will have to undergo new online security checks before they can proceed, if the Commission’s plan is adopted.

Sarajevo University’s law and political sciences faculties screened BIRN’s documentary ‘The Unidentified’, about the Serbian fighters responsible for some of the worst atrocities of the Kosovo war in 1999. ‘The Unidentified’, which investigates attacks on Kosovo villages in 1999 and names those involved in an attempted cover-up operation to conceal the crimes, was screened for students of communications, security, journalism and law at Sarajevo University on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Disciplinary proceedings were launched against state prosecutor Miroslav Janjic because he failed to include five people’s deaths in a war crimes indictment, not because he indicted a Bosniak commander, prosecutors insisted.

European auditors said the European Commission has provided relatively little funding for projects in the field of freedom of the media and the fight against organised crime and corruption in Western Balkan countries.

War victims are launching an appeal in The Hague, calling for the Netherlands to be held responsible for the deaths of all the Bosniaks from Srebrenica who were killed in July 1995. The Mothers of Srebrenica and Zepa Enclaves victims’ group will launch an appeal on Thursday in The Hague against a 2014 verdict which held the Netherlands responsible for the deaths of about 300 Bosniaks after the fall of Srebrenica.

The Hague Tribunal refused to consider a motion filed by former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic’s defence asking for the trial to be stopped because the court was systematically biased.

The prosecution at the UN court in The Hague has filed an appeal against the verdict acquitting the leader of the Serbian Radical Party, Vojislav Seselj, of crimes against humanity in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia.

Denis Džidić

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Commission Plans Security Checks for Non-EU Citizens

BIRN’s Kosovo War Film Screened at Sarajevo University

Bosnian Prosecutor’s Disciplinary Charge ‘Not Political Revenge’

Auditors: EU Underfunded Balkan Media, Anti-Graft Projects

Netherlands Targeted in Appeal Over Srebrenica Deaths

Mladic Trial: Court Refuses to Consider Bias Claims

Hague Prosecution Challenges Vojislav Seselj Acquittal

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