The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals will eavesdrop on calls made from detention by former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic after he phoned into a debate in Montenegro without permission.
Radovan Karadzic’s lawyer said the UN court has not yet taken any action against the former Bosnian Serb leader and genocide convict after he addressed a public debate in Montenegro by phone from prison.
Jadranko Prlic, former prime minister of the unrecognised Croat-led Herzeg-Bosnia statelet, asked not to be sent to serve his sentence for crimes against humanity in a British jail because violent criminals and sex offenders are incarcerated there.
The UN court in The Hague rejected former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic’s request to be allowed to file an appeal against the length of his prison sentence for genocide and other wartime crimes.
Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic said he will contest his life sentence for genocide and other wartime crimes - although the UN court has only ever reviewed a final sentence once before.
Ahead of the former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic’s war crimes verdict this week, BIRN has compiled all its reports on the landmark case into a free, downloadable e-book. BIRN published a new e-book on Tuesday entitled ‘Radovan Karadzic: Wartime Leader’s Years on Trial’, ahead of the former Bosnian Serb wartime president’s final trial […]
As Radovan Karadzic’s final verdict approaches, witnesses who testified against the former Bosnian Serb political leader recall how they felt when they spoke about his alleged crimes to his face in the courtroom.
Prosecutors want the UN court to give former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic a life sentence for genocide and other crimes this week - but his defence insists the trial was unfair and the final verdict should acquit him.
A new behind-the-scenes documentary tracking the marathon trial of Ratko Mladic has upset some by depicting the genocide defendant as a human being, not a monster - but its director says it’s necessary to understand why people commit terrible crimes.