Belgrade Higher Court
Bosnian War Prison Camp Detainees Were Raped, Witness Testifies
Begajeta Mujic, a Bosniak civilian, told Belgrade Higher Court on Monday that female prisoners held at the Sase mine prison camp in the Srebrenica municipality by Bosnian Serb forces in 1992 were taken out and raped.
Former Bosnian Serb soldier Novak Stjepanovic is on trial for raping a young Bosnian female at a house in Bratunac in early June 1992.
Serbian Court Urged to Jail Bosnian Wartime Prison Camp Official
Prosecutor Dusan Knezevic on Thursday asked Belgrade Higher Court to hand down a six-year prison sentence to Osman Osmanovic, who is accused of abusing civilians and prisoners of war at the Rasadnik camp in Gornji Rahic in Bosnia and Herzegovina's Brcko area during the summer of 1992.
Serbia Arrests Citizen Suspected of ‘Glorifying’ Islamic State
A Serbian citizen named Igor Despotovic has been arrested on suspicion of "glorifying terrorism", in that he "continuously and publicly presented and transmitted ideas directly through videos, photographs and texts encouraging the commission … of terrorism," the Belgrade Higher Court confirmed to BIRN.
Despotovic was arrested on Thursday and on Friday remanded in 30 days' custody.
Croat Suing Serbia ‘Got Good Deal’ in Wartime House Swap
Franjo Baricevic obtained more valuable property in Croatia than he had in Serbia, contrary to his case against the state of Serbia and Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj, a defence witness told Belgrade Higher Court on Friday.
Serbia Convicts State Security Officers of Journalist’s Murder
Belgrade Higher Court on Thursday found four former Serbian state security employees guilty after a retrial of the murder in 1999 of journalist and editor Slavko Curuvija, who was known for his opposition to the regime of Slobodan Milosevic.
Enemy of the State: How a Serbian Journalist Became a Shooting Target
"When I came to [daily newspaper] Borba in 1990, he was a reporter and political analyst, and known for writing a couple of pamphlets, one of which I remember was about the people from Goli Otok [political prison in Socialist Yugoslavia]," Gunjic recalled.
Srebrenica Genocide Convicts ‘Did Not See’ Any Executions
Ex-policemen Mendeljev Djuric and Petar Mitrovic, who have both been convicted of involvement in the Srebrenica genocide, told the war crimes trial of eight former Bosnian Serb special policeman at Belgrade Higher Court on Monday that they did not see any executions at an agricultural warehouse in the Bosnian village of Kravica in July 1995, even though they were both found guilty of participat
Kosovo War Massacres Trial Stalled in Serbia for Two Years
A hearing in the trial of 11 former Yugoslav Army soldiers for war crimes in four Kosovo villages in May 1999 was postponed at Belgrade Higher Court on Monday, meaning that two full years have passed without any hearing in the case being held.
Bosnia Train Massacre Trial Witness ‘Not Mentally Ill’
Ratko Kovacevic, a medical expert commissioned by the court to analyse the psychological condition of witness Mitrasin Glisic, told the trial of four Serb ex-fighters at Belgrade Higher Court on Thursday that the witness does not have any mental illnesses.
Serbian Court to Ignore Petition for Release of Prime Minister’s Killer
Belgrade Higher Court told BIRN that Zvezdan Jovanovic, who shot dead Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic in 2003, is not eligible to ask for conditional release from prison until the end of 2029, despite a campaign calling for him to be freed immediately as a 'Serbian hero'.