Court of Appeals

BELGRADE - The Srebrenica war crimes trial in Belgrade will be continued, Serbian Justice Minister Nela Kuburovic said after the Court of Appeals rejected an indictment against eight former members of a Republika Srpska special police brigade charged with killing 1,313 Bosnian Muslim civilians in Kravice near Srebrenica in July 1995.

Sarajevo, BiH

The Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina has sentenced three Serbs to a total of 32 years in prison for war crimes committed against Bosniaks (Muslims) in Sanski Most.

Goran Mrdja, Milorad Mrdja, and Mile Kokot are the defendants who have been found guilty, Beta reported.

Ranko Mrdja has been acquitted of all charges, RTRS said on Tuesday.

SDP Civil Initiative leader Oliver Ivanovic has been released from house arrest. The Serb politician from northern Kosovo will be free pending the outcome of his retrial on charges of war crimes.

Ivanovic will now have to report to a police station in northern Kosovska Mitrovica twice a week.

A groundbreaking black jurist who became the first Muslim woman to serve as a U.S. judge was found dead in New York's Hudson River on April 12, police said.

Sheila Abdus-Salaam, a 65-year-old associate judge of New York's highest court, was found floating off Manhattan's west side at about 1:45 p.m. EDT (3:45 p.m. GMT), a police spokesman said.

The Court of Appeals in Colmar, France, on Thursday once again postponed its decision on Serbia's extradition warrant for Ramush Haradinaj for April 27.

Haradinaj, an ethnic Albanian politician in Kosovo and a former leader of the KLA ("Kosovo Liberation Army") is wanted in Serbia on charges of war crimes committed in Kosovo and Metohija in 1998 and 1999.

The Court of Appeals in Colmar, France, on Thursday once again postponed its decision on Serbia's extradition warrant for Ramush Haradinaj for April 27.

The Turkish Interior Ministry has applied to the Court of Appeals to not pay 709,000 Turkish Liras in compensation to the family of Ali İsmail Korkmaz, who was killed by police officers and civilians during the 2013 Gezi Park protests. 

Thee government has given the EULEX mission in Kosovo guarantees for Oliver Ivanovic, the Office for Kosovo and Metohija announced on Monday.

The guarantees state that the Serb politician from northern Kosovo "will be available to judicial authorities in case of repeated proceedings against him."

The Appeals Court in Pristina has decided to annul the guilty verdict passed against Oliver Ivanovic and order a trial, B92's correspondent reported Thursday.

Ivanovic's lawyer Nebojsa Vlajic has confirmed the news for Tanjug.

Tsenko Chokov, the controversial mayor of Galiche in northwestern Bulgaria, was released on bail by a court on Monday.

Chokov was imposed a bail of 10 000, while the measure ruled for his son, Martin Chokov, was changed from detention to house arrest.