1. August 2018.
The UN court in The Hague rejected a call from Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic’s defence to reconsider a previous decision to refuse to launch proceedings against medics at its detention unit.
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
18. July 2018.
Former Serbian deputy security chief Franko Simatovic’s defence told the UN court in The Hague that his client did not command an operation in western Bosnia in 1994 and 1995.
At the retrial of former Serbian State Security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic at the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Wednesday, Simatovic’s lawyer denied that his client commanded the ‘Pauk’ (‘Spider’) operation in western Bosnia in 1994 and 1995, as a prosecution witness has claimed.
11. July 2018.
Former Serbian security chief Jovica Stanisic’s defence lawyer told the UN court that an ex-member of the Red Berets unit lied about the defendant commanding an operation in Bosnia in 1994 and 1995.
At the retrial of former Serbian State Security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic at the Mechanism for International Tribunals in The Hague on Wednesday, Stanisic’s lawyer claimed that Red Berets ex-fighter Dejan Sliskovic “made up” testimony allegedly incriminating the defendants.
9. July 2018.
Ahead of the 23rd anniversary of the Srebrenica massacres, questions have been raised about whether the verdicts so far are logical, because some commanders have been convicted of less serious crimes than their subordinates.
4. July 2018.
Defence lawyers for former Serbian security service officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic told the Hague court that notorious paramilitary leader Arkan’s fighters operated as part of the Bosnian Serb police in 1995.
Defence lawyers at the retrial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic told the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Wednesday that Zeljko ‘Arkan’ Raznatovic’s paramilitaries were part of the Bosnian Serb Interior Ministry in 1995, and were not controlled by the Serbian State Security Service.
3. July 2018.
A witness told the trial of former Serbian security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic that he saw Zeljko Raznatovic, alias Arkan, shoot a captive dead in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1995.
A protected prosecution witness codenamed RFJ-120 told the retrial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic at the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Tuesday that he saw Serbian paramilitary chief Arkan kill a man out of revenge.
3. July 2018.
The UN secretary-general did not reappoint Hague court judge Aydin Sefa Akay under pressure from Ankara after he was convicted of belonging to a ‘terrorist organisation’ alleged to have staged a coup attempt in Turkey.
26. June 2018.
A witness told the Hague retrial of former Serbian security service chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic how he survived a shooting by paramilitaries led by Serbian warlord Arkan in Bosnia in 1995.
A protected prosecution witness told the retrial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic at the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Tuesday that he managed to survive the shooting by members of Zeljko ‘Arkan’ Raznatovic’s paramilitary unit in Sanski Most in Bosnia in 1995 despite having been hit in the back and chin.
20. June 2018.
Former Serbian security service official Franko Simatovic’s defence told the UN court that a journalist who testified that the service controlled Serbian paramilitaries in the Croatian and Bosnian wars was not credible.
19. June 2018.
Former Serbian security service chief Jovica Stanisic’s defence told the UN court that Serbian paramilitary units operating in wartime Croatia were controlled by the Yugoslav People’s Army, not Belgrade’s security service.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.