BELGRADE, July 31 (Hina) - Lawyers of former Yugoslav and Serbian President and current indictee of the UN war crimes tribunal, Slobodan Milosevic, have announced they are going to press charges against all persons "involved" in
Milosevic's extradition to this tribunal (ICTY) based in The Hague. Milosevic's legal counsels said on Tuesday they would prefer charges with Yugoslav courts against all the responsible on suspicion that they had abuse office and breach the freedom of their client. The charges will thus be pressed against members of the Serbian government that had decided to hand over Milosevic, Yugoslav ministers who endorsed the decision and the head of a Belgrade prison where the former Yugoslav autocrat had been kept for about two months before he was transferred to the UN detention centre in Scheveningen, the Netherlands, on 28 June. Lawyer Mocilo Raicevic told the press conference that he
BELGRADE, July 31 (Hina) - Lawyers of former Yugoslav and Serbian
President and current indictee of the UN war crimes tribunal,
Slobodan Milosevic, have announced they are going to press charges
against all persons "involved" in Milosevic's extradition to this
tribunal (ICTY) based in The Hague.
Milosevic's legal counsels said on Tuesday they would prefer
charges with Yugoslav courts against all the responsible on
suspicion that they had abuse office and breach the freedom of their
client.
The charges will thus be pressed against members of the Serbian
government that had decided to hand over Milosevic, Yugoslav
ministers who endorsed the decision and the head of a Belgrade
prison where the former Yugoslav autocrat had been kept for about
two months before he was transferred to the UN detention centre in
Scheveningen, the Netherlands, on 28 June.
Lawyer Mocilo Raicevic told the press conference that he believed
that "they will answer before the court of the public and the court
of history." as such acts had no statute of limitations.
Asked whether Milosevic's lawyers would instigate the proceedings
before the European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg, attorney
Raicevic said this job would be done by Dutch lawyers and the public
would soon be informed of it.
Lawyer Dragoslav Ognjanovic denied a statement given by an ICTY
official that Milosevic had asked himself to be isolated from other
detainees in the Scheveningen prison. Ognjanovic asserted that
upon his arrival in the detention centre Milosevic was given a
document reading that he would be monitored by cameras around the
clock and that all of his talks with other persons would be bugged in
the forthcoming one month. The lawyer regards such decision as
illegal and holds that the isolation could be carried out only
during the first two weeks of an indictee's detention in custody.
The toppled Yugoslav President is indicted of crimes against
humanity for atrocities committed by Yugoslav forces against
Kosovo Albanian civilians in 1999.
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