Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj asked the UN court in The Hague to be allowed to appeal against its final verdict sentencing him to ten years in prison for the persecution of Croats.
The UN court in The Hague decided to transfer to Belgrade the case against two Serbian Radical Party officials who are charged with contempt of court in the trial of their leader Vojislav Seselj.
The UN tribunal in The Hague has sought a special prosecutor’s opinion about transferring the contempt-of-court trial of two Serbian Radical Party politicians to Belgrade.
The UN war crimes court will deliver its appeal verdict on Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj on April 11, but he has vowed not to return to The Hague to hear it.
The prosecution asked the UN court in The Hague to quash the acquittal of Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj and convict him of war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia.
Serbian nationalist politician Vojislav Seselj dismissed the Hague Tribunal’s warning that it will assign him a defence lawyer whether he wants one or not if he fails to turn up for his appeal hearings.
The fear of another defendant dying in custody before his final verdict like Slobodan Milosevic has made the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague take unusual precautionary measures.
Judges at the UN court said that Belgrade is refusing to fulfil its obligations and transfer three members of Vojislav Seselj’s Serbian Radical Party for trial on witness intimidation charges.
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.
The UN court said Serbia has an international legal obligation to cooperate in its contempt case against three Serbian Radical Party members who Belgrade refused to extradite to The Hague.