THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, Nov 5 (Hina) - Milan Simic, a Bosnian Serb whom the Hague tribunal sentenced to five years in prison for crimes against humanity, has been released before serving his full sentence by a decision of Judge Theodor
Meron, the U.N. tribunal for the former Yugoslavia said on Wednesday.
THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, Nov 5 (Hina) - Milan Simic, a Bosnian Serb whom
the Hague tribunal sentenced to five years in prison for crimes
against humanity, has been released before serving his full
sentence by a decision of Judge Theodor Meron, the U.N. tribunal for
the former Yugoslavia said on Wednesday. #L#
Simic voluntarily surrendered to the tribunal in February 1998,
pleading not guilty.
In May 2002, based on an agreement with the prosecutor's office, he
admitted to having tortured captives as crimes against humanity,
for which he was given five years in jail.
Including the time spent in custody, Simic spent four and a half
years at the Hague tribunal's prison.
He is the seventh convict to have served his punishment. Currently
there are 13 other people convicted by the Hague tribunal serving
their sentences.
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