THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, April 2 (Hina) - The ruling in the case of Biljana Plavsic, a former president of the Bosnian Serb entity, became final on 1 April with no appeals being lodged against the 11-year sentence by that date when the
deadline for possible appeals either by the defence or the prosecution expired, a spokesman for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said on Wednesday.
THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, April 2 (Hina) - The ruling in the case of Biljana
Plavsic, a former president of the Bosnian Serb entity, became
final on 1 April with no appeals being lodged against the 11-year
sentence by that date when the deadline for possible appeals either
by the defence or the prosecution expired, a spokesman for the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
said on Wednesday. #L#
Jim Landale told Hina on the phone that the verdict became final,
after no side had appealed against it within a 30-day deadline since
the announcement of the verdict made by the ICTY.
Former university professor, Biljana Plavsic (aged 72), is the only
women among 15 participants in the criminal endeavour masterminded
by former Serbian and Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, and
she is the only one of them to have pleaded guilty.
On 27 February, the ICTY's trial chamber in her case announced the
judgement that she would be sentenced in prison for 11 years for
crimes against humanity committed in Bosnia-Herzegovina while she
was one of the leading Bosnian Serb hard-liners. In return to her
guilty plea, the Prosecution dropped counts on genocide in her
indictment.
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