Law

Inaugural session of new parliament on April 16

BELGRADE -- Outgoing Parliament Speaker Nebojša Stefanović has called a constitutive session of the National Assembly for April 16, the institution has announced.

The agenda will contain six points, according to a statement.

Eight guards from Nigrita Prison in northern Greece are due to appear before a magistrate Tuesday as part of an ongoing investigation into the death of Albanian inmate Ilie Kareli, believed to be a victim of torture.

Former government secretary general Takis Baltakos arrives at a prosecutor's office to give a testimony in Athens yesterday. Baltakos, a top aide to the Greek prime minister, resigned last week after a leaked video showed him suggesting the government had tried to press judges to jail lawmakers from the far-right Golden Dawn party.

The number of workplace gender discrimination charges in Greece went up by 25 percent, according to a Citizens’ Advocate (Ombudsman) report released on Monday.

“The crisis and its consequences clearly reflect on the quality of jobs and occupations available to women,” said the survey, which put the number of reported discrimination cases at 327.

The trial of Yiannis Sbokos, former head of arms procurements at the Defense Ministry, and Antonis Kantas, an ex-deputy in the same department, was pushed to April 28 on Monday, after the defendants’ legal teams argued that the charges brought against them had expired under the statute of limitations.

A Thessaloniki court on Monday convicted a couple for beating their 7-year-old son to death in 2006.

The northern city’s appeals court sentenced the victim’s mother to life in prison, while the father received 10 years.

Charges against the parents, who are from Albania, included homicide and grievous bodily harm.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Outgoing Parliament Speaker Nebojsa Stefanovic has called a constitutive session of the National Assembly for April 16, the institution issued a release.

Supreme Court prosecutor Efterpi Koutzamani ordered Greece’s prosecutors to initiate proceedings for the immediate arrest of anyone who makes public illegally obtained footage.

Prosecution witnesses at the trial of Bosnian Serb ex-fighter Dragan Sekaric recalled on Monday how Bosniaks were killed and wounded in an attack on the village of Kokino Selo, also known as Podlozje, in May 1992.

BELGRADE - Rasim Ljajic, chairman of the National Council for Cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, said on Monday that Serbia had requested from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to return the entire documentation that had not been used in the proceedings before that court.