ZAGREB, March 3 (Hina) - An international press centre was opened on Wednesday in Zagreb's Sheraton hotel for the coverage of the trial against Dinko Sakic. Press centre head, Kresimir Macan, said accredited reporters and observers
will be able to receive additional information and explanations from legal experts to aide them in the coverage of Dinko Sakic's trial. Dinko Sakic is the former commander of the Jasenovac concentration camp during World War II, scheduled to stand trial before the Zagreb County Court for war crimes against humanity. So far 157 persons have been accredited - 81 Croatian and foreign reporters, 17 photographers and 35 technicians from 54 news agencies and television stations, as well as 25 observers from international organisations and embassies. The trial is scheduled to begin at 9.30am Thursday in Zagreb. The course of the trial will be filmed by Croatian Television and reporters will be able t
ZAGREB, March 3 (Hina) - An international press centre was opened on
Wednesday in Zagreb's Sheraton hotel for the coverage of the trial
against Dinko Sakic.
Press centre head, Kresimir Macan, said accredited reporters and
observers will be able to receive additional information and
explanations from legal experts to aide them in the coverage of
Dinko Sakic's trial.
Dinko Sakic is the former commander of the Jasenovac concentration
camp during World War II, scheduled to stand trial before the Zagreb
County Court for war crimes against humanity.
So far 157 persons have been accredited - 81 Croatian and foreign
reporters, 17 photographers and 35 technicians from 54 news
agencies and television stations, as well as 25 observers from
international organisations and embassies.
The trial is scheduled to begin at 9.30am Thursday in Zagreb.
The course of the trial will be filmed by Croatian Television and
reporters will be able to follow the trial from television sets at
the press centre, from where they will be able to report.
The press centre was opened on Wednesday with a lecture by Zlata
Djurdjevic, an assistant lecturer at the Zagreb Faculty of Law.
She acquainted the present reporters with Croatian criminal law and
its idiosyncrasies, its application in the case of Dinko Sakic and
its differences from the Anglo-Saxon law.
The panel of judges, presided by judge Drazen Tripalo, consists of
three professional judges and four jurors-laymen elected by the
City Council for a four-year mandate.
The decision to be made by the County Court is of first instance and
its finality is decided on by the Supreme Court.
According to Djurdjevic, Sakic will be tried according to the Basic
Criminal Law, which envisages a 20-year prison term for the crime of
which he has been indicted.
She stressed the Basic Criminal Law has been drawn up on modern
principles following the tradition of European criminal law.
Speaking about pre-trial detention, she said the new law does not
allow the defendant to be held in detention for more than three
years. If proceedings are not completed in that time, the defendant
must be released, she stressed.
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