The Hague Tribunals President rejects a request by Radovan Stankovic, who was sentenced for crimes in Foca, to quash the verdict against him and return his case to the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
The Defence of Radovan Stankovic, who is serving his sentence for war crimes in Foca, requests the Court to quash a verdict, under which he was sentenced to two years in prison for having fled from the Penal and Correctional Facility in Foca.
At the trial of Radovan Karadzic wartime President of Foca municipal Government Radoijca Mladjenovic apologises to victims of rape committed by Serb forces in that town in 1992.
The beginning of the trial of Radovan Stankovic for fleeing from a prison in Foca, where he was serving his sentence for crimes committed in that town, has been postponed as the indictee fails to appear in court.
Following his arrest on January 21 this year, Radovan Stankovic has been detained in solitary confinement in the Penal and Correctional Facility in Foca Mustafa Bisic, Assistant Minister for Serving of Criminal Sentences with the Ministry of Justice of Bosnia and Herzegovina, confirms to BIRN-Justice Report.
Serge Brammertz, Chief Prosecutor of The Hague Prosecution, said during a meeting with journalists from Bosnia and Herzegovina who are on a study tour of The Hague, that he wants to see Bosnian institutions investing efforts to arrest Radovan Stankovic, who fled from Foca prison.
If the State Strategy for resolving war crime cases continues at the current pace, the deadlines for finishing this job will not be met, said the first deputy of the High Representative Roderick Moore at the meeting with chief Hague prosecutor Serge Brammertz.
Republika Srpska justice minister says confusion about respective powers of Bosnias State Court and courts in the Bosnian Serb entity needs clearing up.
For the first time since war-crime trials began in Bosnia, BIRN Justice Report has filmed inside a prison in which war crime convicts serve their sentences and spoken to one of them.