THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, April 23 (Hina) - Defence counsel for Miodrag Jokic, a retired admiral of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) who was sentenced by the Hague-based UN war crimes tribunal to seven years in prison for the 1991 shelling of
Dubrovnik, on Friday requested the trial chamber to allow them to appeal against the verdict.
THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, April 23 (Hina) - Defence counsel for Miodrag Jokic,
a retired admiral of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) who was
sentenced by the Hague-based UN war crimes tribunal to seven years in
prison for the 1991 shelling of Dubrovnik, on Friday requested the
trial chamber to allow them to appeal against the verdict.#L#
Attorneys Zarko Nikolic and Eugene O'Sullivan said in their request
that the sentence was too harsh and outside the framework of an
agreement between the accused and the prosecution on the basis of
which Jokic in 2003 pleaded guilty to violations of the laws and
customs of war committed through the shelling of Dubrovnik's Old Town
on 6 December 1991.
The attorneys said the trial chamber did not adequately value Jokic's
cooperation and testimony at the trial of JNA General Pavle Strugar,
the principal indictee in the trial for the shelling of Dubrovnik.
After his sentencing on March 18, the 69-year-old Jokic testified at
Strugar's trial giving crown evidence of his responsibility for the
attacks on Dubrovnik.
(Hina) rml