Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic, who was sentenced to life in prison for genocide and other wartime crimes, has been transferred to Britain to serve his sentence, his lawyer confirmed.
Former Bosnian Serb Radovan Karadzic’s objections to serving his sentence in a Britain prison, where he claims he could be attacked by Muslim extremists, have been rejected by the Hague war crimes court, his lawyer said.
The former Bosnian Serb political leader’s lawyers objected to the UN court’s decision to send him to Britain to serve his life sentence, claiming that he could be killed by Muslim extremists seeking revenge for his wartime crimes.
The top international authority in Bosnia and Herzegovina gave a three-month deadline for the authorities in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska to annul honours given to Radovan Karadzic and others convicted of war crimes.
A plaque naming a student dormitory after wartime Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic, which caused a political storm, was taken down after his daughter Sonja Karadzic-Jovicevic called for its removal.
Research into harmful content on the internet says net searches for far-right Serbian nationalist slogans spiked ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide.
The UN court in The Hague will not reconsider its decision to reject former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic’s plea for judges he claims are biased against him to be disqualified from ruling on his attempts to appeal against his sentence.
Eleven-year-old Marko Zizic was one of a dozen people killed when a football match in a parking lot was shelled in Sarajevo on June 1, 1993 - and none of the direct perpetrators has ever been prosecuted.
A year after Radovan Karadzic was convicted of genocide and other wartime crimes, no one who helped the former Bosnian Serb political leader to evade capture for 12 years has been convicted in Bosnia and Herzegovina or Serbia. Since the UN court in The Hague convicted former Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic on March 20, […]
The UN court in The Hague rejected former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic’s attempt to get judges he accuses of being biased against him disqualified from ruling on his attempts to appeal against his sentence.