Person: Stanisic Jovica

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22. August 2018.
The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals has extended the provisional release in Serbia for Jovica Stanisic – charged with committing crimes against non-Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia – until January 2019. The retrial of Jovica Stanisic, former chief of the Serbian State Security Service, SDB, and of Franko Simatovic, alias Frenki, an intelligence officer with the same service, continued before the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals on Wednesday, following a month's summer break.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.