Higher Court in Belgrade

BELGRADE - The Higher Court in Belgrade on Thursday rejected the last complaint to the consolidated report on the results of the elections for the City of Belgrade Assembly, held on December 17 and repeated at three polling stations on December 30.

This means the electoral process is now complete, the city authorities said in a statement.

BELGRADE - The Higher Court in Belgrade has upheld plea agreements signed by seven suspects in the December 24 riots outside the Belgrade City Hall, convicting them for the criminal offences of calling for overthrowing the constitutional order by violent means and/or violent conduct at a sports event or a public gathering.

BELGRADE - Seven people suspected in the December 24 riots outside the Belgrade City Hall have pleaded guilty to the criminal offences of calling for overthrowing the constitutional order by violent means and violent conduct at a sports event or a public gathering, with custody proposed for 11 others to prevent them from repeating the offences.

BELGRADE - The Higher Court in Belgrade has rejected another complaint filed by the opposition Serbia Against Violence coalition, upholding a decision by the City of Belgrade electoral commission whereby it declared itself not competent to decide on annulment and a repeat of parliamentary elections, the city electoral commission said.

BELGRADE - The Criminal Non-Trial Chamber of the Higher Court in Belgrade on Wednesday upheld an indictment against Vladimir K and Miljana K, the father and the mother of a K K, a teenager who killed nine of his peers and a security guard in a May 3 shooting spree in a primary school in downtown Belgrade.

BELGRADE - The Higher Court in Belgrade has rejected a proposal by the local Higher Public Prosecutor's Office to order custody for Milan Radoicic, suspected of committing the criminal offences of association for the purpose of committing criminal acts, illicit production, possession, carrying and distribution of firearms and explosives and serious criminal acts against general safety.

BELGRADE - Milan Radoicic appeared in a hearing before the Higher Public Prosecutor's office in Belgrade on Tuesday on suspicion of committing the criminal offence of association for the purpose of committing criminal offences, the criminal offence of illicit production, possession, carrying and distribution of firearms and explosives and serious criminal offences against general safety.

The commemoration near the town of Pluzine on Thursday. Photo: Youth Initiative for Human Rights.

The three Bosniaks were murdered in the Piva River canyon near Pluzine after escaping from the Serb-held town of Foca in eastern Bosnia.

The killers were members of the Bosnian Serb Army's Dragan Nikolic special unit.

Nenad Milanovic, chief of cabinet of Belgrade mayor Aleksandar Sapic, filed a defamation lawsuit against BIRN Serbia before the Higher Court in Belgrade, seeking 200.000 dinars (1,705 euros) in damages for mental anguish.

Franjo Baricevic was born in 1953 in the small village of Hrtkovci, near the town of Ruma in Serbia's northern Vojvodina region, where his family had lived for several generations.