Violence

Prosecutors have asked for between 1.5 months and 13 months in prison for two of three police officers standing trial for beating and torturing a woman while in custody, while asking for the acquittal of a third officer, daily Milliyet reported June 6.

There are times when the justice system, or to be more precise, judges, need to provide the public with some kind of explanation regarding decisions they take that have an effect on society’s interests.

Construction of Safe House begins in southeastern district

BELGRADE -- Construction works were launched on Monday in Vranjska Banja to build a safe house for women who are victims of domestic violence.

The works will be completed by the end of this year.

The proposed new international protocol on documenting and investigating wartime sexual violence will utilise Bosnia and Herzegovina’s 20 years of experience in dealing with sensitive cases.

Six employees of Nigrita Prison in northern Greece – where a 42-year-old Albanian inmate was found dead in his cell on March 27, apparently after a severe beating – are to face a magistrate in Serres on Monday and Tuesday on charges of torture.

By Alexis Papachelas

Before society drowns in tawdry videos, let us cast our minds back to the political machinations and the rationale that has developed over the past couple of years, from the inauspicious emergence of Golden Dawn as a political force to the shocking revelation of this week’s video, which was illegally recorded and broadcast.

Victims of sexual violence during the 1992-95 war are often afraid to testify in court because of the fear of being stigmatised, the launch of an OSCE report on the issue in Sarajevo was told.

A 31-year-old man was arrested in Thessaloniki on Saturday on suspicion of nine attempted rapes in the city.

The suspect is alleged to have followed women into their apartment buildings and then assaulted them.

He is believed to have carried out the attacks between November 2013 and this month.

A prosecution witness told the trial for crimes committed at Mt Igman that he twice had blood in his urine after being beaten by a soldier, whose name he heard was Nedzad Hodzic.

At the trial of two Bosniak fighters for the torture, beatings and sexual abuse of prisoners on Mount Igman in 1993, a witness said one defendant behaved “abnormally” because of wartime stress.