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Three of the leading rights groups in Montenegro, MANS, Action for Human Rights and the Center for Civic Education, on Monday urged parliamentarians to amend the new law on the National Security Agency - concerned about proposals to allow warrantless surveillance.

The four surviving original Magna Carta copies go on display together for the first time from Monday as Britain kicks off 800th anniversary celebrations for a contract with global significance.
      

Bulgaria's Supreme Judicial Council on Thursday elected Lozan Panov as chairman of the Supreme Court of Cassation.

Panov was elected in a 17-6 vote with no abstentions in the Supreme Judicial Council known by its Bulgarian acronym VSS.

The justice system needs a comprehensive reform, Panov said after being elected for a seven-year term.

STRASBOURG - Branko Lubarda, a professor of the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade, has been elected a judge of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) by a decision of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (CoE).

Lubarda teaches labour, international and social law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade.

The Supreme Judicial Council (VSS) is to make another attempt at electing a Chair of the Supreme Court of Cassation (VKS) on Thursday.

Both President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and the head of Turkey?s Constitutional Court have denied there is any tension between them, after joining a luncheon hosted by the former at the presidential palace in Ankara.

The High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ, Romania's Supreme Court) sentenced former ministers Codrut Seres and Zsolt Nagy on Tuesday to prison terms in a case on faulty privatizations.

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Seres was condemned to 4 years and 8 months in jail, and Nagy to 4 years; the sentences are final.

The lawyer for two police officers who were convicted of killing of 19-year-old Gezi protester Ali ?smail Korkmaz has appealed a court decision that sentenced them to 10 years in prison.

The lawyer reportedly submitted a petition to the Supreme Court of Appeals on Jan. 23, demanding a reversal of the judgment and the release of the officers, according to Hürriyet.

Following the light sentences issued by Tirana's Appeals Court against two former Republican Guard officers accused of the murder of three protestors in the January 21, 2011 riots in Tirana, the General Prosecutors office appealed the cases to the Supreme Court.

Release of Glavas "insult to Serb victims"

BELGRADE -- Miodrag Linta believes that the release of war criminal Branimir Glavas constitutes another insult and humiliation for Serb victims.

The president of the Coalition of Refugee Associations in Serbia believes this is true not only of those who perished Croatia's town of Osijek, but throughout that country as well.