BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4813 HINA Zagreb, November 24

HR-BULLETIN-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4813 HINA Zagreb, November 24 LOCAL NGOS DISSATISFIED WITH VERDICT IN LORA TRIALSPLIT, Nov 24 (Hina) - Representatives of a coalition of local non-governmental organisations in Split on Sunday expressed their dissatisfaction with the acquittal of defendants in the Lora case and asserted that the panel of judges in the war crimes trial, presided by Judge Slavko Lozina, had committed many breaches of the legal procedure. Leaders of two NGOs - the Centre for Development of Democracy (CERD) and Altruist - Semina Loncar and Vojko Ivica said at a news conference in front of the County Court in the biggest Croatian coastal city, that this verdict was "new crime committed against victims in Lora (the war-time military prison) but also against Croatia, which has thus gone further away from Europe, and closer to the Hague-based tribunal." They said the NGOs were not surprised at the verdict, given that "at the trial, with the approval of th