International law
Human rights organizations hail gov't stance over migrant detention
Amnesty International and the Greek Council for Refugees have welcomed a government decision to halt the indefinite detention of migrants held under return orders, following an announcement made by Alternate Minister for Citizens? Protection Yiannis Panousis in Parliament earlier in the week.
Montenegro Policeman in Deportation Case Wins Payout
Montenegro will have to pay 87,000 euros to a former policeman for unlawful detention after he was acquitted of war crimes charges for detaining and deporting Bosnian refugees in 1992.
Russia wants 4 trillion euros in war reparations from Germany
Russian MPs are creating a task force to estiamte the German damages to Russia during World War 2 with a view to seeking financial reparations worht up to ?4 trillion, reports Izvestia.
Army chief rejects NGO's accusations
Army chief rejects NGO's accusations
BELGRADE -- Chief of the General Staff of the Serbian Army General Ljubisa Dikovic has rejected all accusations by the Humanitarian Law Center (FHP) NGO.
In a statement for the Belgrade-based broadcaster TV Pink late on Monday, he stressed that he did not take part in war crimes either as a soldier or as a commander.
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Dikovic rejects all a?usations by Humanitarian Law Center
BELGRADE - Chief of the General Staff of the Serbian Armed Forces General Ljubisa Dikovic has rejected all accusations by the Humanitarian Law Center (FHP), stressing that he did not take part in war crimes either as a soldier or as a commander.
ICTY Appeal Chamber confirms verdicts against 5 Serbs
THE HAGUE - The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) pronounced final verdicts in the case of Popovic and others against five high officials of former army of Bosniak Serbs for crimes committed in Srebrenica and Zepa in July 1995.
Chief of Bulgaria's Largest Customs Office Accused of Taking Bribe
The chief of the Svilengrad Customs Office Todor Karaivanov, who was detained in a special operation on Wednesday, has been charged with taking a bribe.
The lawsuit has been allocated for investigation by the specialized unit on tackling corruption, which had been created between Sofia City's Prosecutor Office and the State Agency for National Security (DANS).
Belgium jihad suspect agrees to be extradited, says Greek justice source
A 33-year-old Algerian man with suspected links to the jihadi cell dismantled by Belgian security forces last week agreed Tuesday to be extradited from Greece, a justice source said.
The suspect "wants to prove his innocence" and a Greek prosecutor has also agreed to meet Belgium's request for the Algerian's extradition, the source said.
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Bulgarian Court to Rule on French Terror Suspect's Extradition on Friday
A Bulgarian court will consider on Friday a request to extradite a French citizen charged with having been linked to Kouachi brothers who killed 12 people at the Paris headquarters of Charlie Hebdo magazine last week.
Bulgaria Vice President: Army Should Guard Border alongside Police
The army should help the Interior Ministry to patrol along the Bulgaria-Turkey border by deploying troops there, Bulgarian Vice-President Margarita Popova has said.
Popova has thus joined the debate on further measures to step up security at the border with Turkey in the face of a prospective flow of asylum seekers coming from the south-east.