25. September 2017.
The UN war crimes court in The Hague ruled that former Serbian State Security Service chief Jovica Stanisic can remain at liberty in his home country until mid-January due to his continuing illness.
Radoša Milutinović
20. September 2017.
Former Serbian State Security chief Jovica Stanisic’s defence told the Hague war crimes court that Serb forces in Croatia’s Baranja region in 1991 were controlled by the Yugoslav People’s Army, not the security service.
19. September 2017.
A witness told the retrial of former Serbian State Security Service chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic that the Red Berets unit, allegedly controlled by the defendants, committed crimes against non-Serb civilians in Croatia.
14. September 2017.
The lawyer for the former head of the Serbian State Security Service, Jovica Stanisic, told the UN court that a witness’s claim that the security chief was paramilitary leader Arkan’s boss was untrue.
14. September 2017.
As the trial of the former leaders of the Serbian State Security Service, SDB, continued in The Hague, a prosecution witness said that Zeljko Raznatovic, also known as Arkan, said, in May 1991, that “Stanisic was his boss”.
13. September 2017.
A prosecution witness told the trial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic in The Hague that the Serbian State Security Service established, controlled and armed Serb forces that waged war in Croatia.
29. August 2017.
A prosecution witness told the retrial of former Serbian security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic that Serb fighters killed 75 people, mostly civilians, during an attack on a Croatian village in 1991.
Prosecution witness Marko Miljanic told the Mechanism for International Tribunals in The Hague on Tuesday that his father, brother and seven cousins were killed during the attack by the Yugoslav People’s Army, JNA on the Croatian village of Skabrnja in the Kninska Krajina area in 1991.
23. August 2017.
The defence for the former Serbian State Security official Franko Simatovic dismissed testimony given by a witness who said Simatovic delivered arms to the Croatian Serbs in 1990.
Cross-examining a protected witness codenamed RFJ-066, Franko Simatovic's defence lawyer, Mihajlo Bakrac, said his client could not have transported around 400 rifles by two SUV cars that belonged to the Serbian Interior Ministry from Belgrade via Bosnia to Knin in Croatia, as the witness alleged during his main testimony in July.
21. August 2017.
The retrial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, two former leaders of the Serbian State Security Service, SDB, for crimes in Croatia and Bosnia continues on Tuesday.
14. August 2017.
Former detention camp guard Goran Jelisic, who described himself as a ‘Serb Adolf Hitler’, was refused early release from prison, where he is serving 40 years for crimes against humanity.
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