Former Bosnian Serb interior minister Mico Stanisic, sentenced to 22 years in prison by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, has submitted a request for early release from prison in Poland.
The UN court in The Hague has rejected requests for early release from three war crimes convicts because they have not shown signs that they have been rehabilitated – a move applauded by Bosnian war victims’ organisation. Bosnian war victims’ representatives have welcomed decisions by Carmel Agius, president of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals […]
The appeals chamber at the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague upheld the verdict sentencing former Bosnian Serb police officials Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin to 22 years in prison each.
Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity Republika Srpska will spend 20,460 euros of public funds to cover the personal expenses incurred by war crimes defendants Radovan Karadzic, Ratko Mladic and others.
Wartime Minister of Internal Affairs of Republika Srpska Mico Stanisic says, testifying at Radovan Karadzics trial, that no active members of police forces were among the perpetrators of a massacre at Koricanske Stijene in the summer of 1992.
As he continues testifying at Radovan Karadzics trial, Mico Stanisic says that detention camps for Bosniaks and Croats were not under the responsibility of police, but the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, and municipal crisis committees, in the summer of 1992.
Testifying at the trial of Radovan Karadzic, Mico Stanisic, former Minister of Internal Affairs of Republika Srpska, says that crimes against Bosniaks in Eastern Bosnia in 1992 were committed by paramilitary and parapolice forces from Serbia, most of whom were invited by Biljana Plavsic.
Testifying in defence of Radovan Karadzic, former investigative judge from Banja Luka - Jefto Jankovic suggests that the massacre committed at Koricanske Stijene on Mount Vlasic in 1992 was ordered by foreign intelligence services in order to present Serbs as animals.
Former interior minister Mico Stanisic asked the Hague Tribunal to quash his war crimes conviction because one of the judges, Frederik Harhoff, was removed from another case for alleged bias.