Hague Tribunal

Seselj has been found guilty and sentenced to ten years - however, considering that he spent 11.5 years detained by the Hague Tribunal, he will not go to jail.

Former Serbian State Security Service official Franko Simatovic’s defence at his Hague Tribunal trial denied that the service brought Serb paramilitary commander Dragan Vasiljkovic, alias Captain Dragan, to Yugoslavia in 1990.

The Appeals Chamber of the Judicial Mechanism in The Hague (ICTY) rejected the request of Mladic's defense to extend the deadline for the appeal against the first-instance verdict for another 90 days, as it believes it is not supported by new arguments which were adopted in December, reports Serbian daily "Vecernje Novosti".

Gazeta Express got hold of a letter that the British lawyer Sir Geoffrey Nice addressed to the so-called Government of Kosovo, when he reveals a scandalous history involving Hashim Thaci and his team. The letter shows that Thaci owes almost half a million Euro for his professional engagement with the Government of Kosovo.

They also demand that a street and a square be named after the former Serbian and Yugoslav leader, the daily Vecernje Novosti is reporting.

According to the paper, the initiative was handed over to the city authorities on Friday at at noon, and the initiative was also taken to the Presidency of Serbia.

Vojislav Seselj, the leader of the SRS party, surrendered to MITC's predecessor ICTY (Hague Tribunal) 15 years ago, and then spent 11 years in custody before he was temporarily released for health reasons.

The Hague Tribunal prosecution urged the UN court to reject Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic’s request to be released to Serbia to undergo medical treatment while his appeal against his conviction is being considered.

The Youth Initiative for Human Rights urged Zagreb not to name a street after Janko Bobetko, a deceased Croatian general who was named as a part of a wartime joint criminal enterprise by the Hague Tribunal.

Dragan Mektic on Saturday attempted to prevent a major controversy after he was quoted by Vecernji List newspaper as saying that the 1995 Srebrenica massacres were genocide, insisting that he had been misquoted.

"There are relevant documents proving genocide and the Serbs have to admit it," Mektic was quoted by Vecernji List as saying.

Human rights activists criticised the Kosovo Assembly for holding a minute’s silence to commemorate the death of the country’s only Hague Tribunal war crimes convict, Haradin Bala.