ZAGREB, Jan 19 (Hina) - Croatia has applied the General Amnesty Act on 20,616 people, the Justice Ministry said in Friday's response to an inquiry by Croatian Party of Rights MP Tonci Tadic about the Act's implementation. According to
data leading up to 18 March 1998, the highest number of amnesties, 13,575, were granted in the Danube River Region in eastern Croatia. They were enforced under decisions of the County Court in Osijek. The other county courts applied the General Amnesty Act on 4,643 people. The courts continued enforcing it after the aforementioned date, applying it to 2,032 people. The Act granted amnesty from criminal prosecution, the holding of criminal proceedings, and the enforcement of final sentences given perpetrators of crimes committed during or in connection with the aggression, armed uprising and conflicts in Croatia from the beginning of the Serb aggression on 17 August 1990 unti
ZAGREB, Jan 19 (Hina) - Croatia has applied the General Amnesty Act
on 20,616 people, the Justice Ministry said in Friday's response to
an inquiry by Croatian Party of Rights MP Tonci Tadic about the
Act's implementation.
According to data leading up to 18 March 1998, the highest number of
amnesties, 13,575, were granted in the Danube River Region in
eastern Croatia. They were enforced under decisions of the County
Court in Osijek.
The other county courts applied the General Amnesty Act on 4,643
people.
The courts continued enforcing it after the aforementioned date,
applying it to 2,032 people.
The Act granted amnesty from criminal prosecution, the holding of
criminal proceedings, and the enforcement of final sentences given
perpetrators of crimes committed during or in connection with the
aggression, armed uprising and conflicts in Croatia from the
beginning of the Serb aggression on 17 August 1990 until 23 August
1996, when Croatia and Yugoslavia signed an agreement on the
normalisation of relations.
Exempt from the General Amnesty Act were perpetrators of crimes
representing the most serious breaches of human rights, namely war
crimes.
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