International law

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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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.

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.

Recent decisions to close war crimes trials involving sexual abuse to the public to protect indictees’ family lives have been criticised for putting defendants’ rights before those of victims.

As many as 3163 migrants with either humanitarian or refugee status are to be sent back to Bulgaria after Sofia has issued the respective number of approvals, government officials have revealed.

EU, Balkan countries to increase law enforcement co-operation

The Union approved funding for a new project to fight organised crime and enhance border security.

The EU and the Balkan countries are strengthening law enforcement agencies' and judicial authorities' co-operation in the fight against organised crime and terrorism, officials said.

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Ratko Mladic was temporarily ejected from his war crimes trial at the Hague Tribunal for clapping his hands when a witness said he would go down in history as a positive person.

BELGRADE - An EU-Western Balkans forum will be held in Belgrade on Friday, with interior and justice ministers expected to adopt guidelines for further fight against international terrorism, organised crime and corruption.

The forum will take place under the auspices of Italy, which currently holds the EU presidency, Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic has told Tanjug.

The final declaration of the international conference "25 Years since the Collapse of Communist Dictatorships in Eastern Europe: Looking Back, Looking Forward", attended by former heads of state in Central and Eastern Europe, proposes to the new European Parliament and the new European Commission that the problem of the memory of communism victims be taken into account "including

An inter-governmental protocol on investigating and documenting sexual violence in conflicts was promoted in Sarajevo on Wednesday with a message that it is vital to ensure there is no climate of impunity over such crimes.