Montenegrin Authorities to Reveal Identity of Željko Ivanović’s Assaulters

Nongovernmental organizations from Serbia, the Humanitarian Law Center, Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights – YUCOM, Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, Youth Initiative for Human Rights, Women in Black, and Center for Cultural Decontamination, are pointing out that they are very worried about the assault of journalist Željko Ivanović, Director and one of the founders of the independent Montenegrin Vijesti Daily. They are demanding that Montenegrin authorities should support the media whose primary duty is to analyze critically the authorities and their acts.


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Arrest of former District Prosecutor Rade Terzić politically motivated

The arrest of the former District Prosecutor Rade Terzić in Belgrade is a part of a well organized campaign directed against assassinated Serbia’s Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić, launched soon after the judgment was passed in the trial of his assassins. The goal of this campaign is to eliminate and ridicule the request of injured party’s representatives and a part of the democratic public in Serbia to establish the political motive of the murder of the Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić, which the Prosecution in this case obviously purposely failed to do.


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Those indicted by the ICTY should serve their sentence in countries where war criminals are not considered heroes

The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) believes that the proposal made by Carla del Ponte, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), supported by Vladimir Vukčević, Serbia’s War Crimes Prosecutor, Rasim Ljajić, president of the National Council for the Cooperation with ICTY, and Vojislav Koštunica, Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia to create conditions for those indicted by the ICTY in the future to serve their prison sentences in countries of their citizenship is still premature.


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Bulletin: Regional consultations with youth

The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC), Research and Documentation Center (RDC), and Documenta are facilitating a process of regional consultation with civil society on instruments for truth-seeking and truth-telling on war crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia.


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Compensation lawsuits against Serbia for human rights abuses committed in the past

Within the scope of its program offering support to victims of human rights abuses committed in the past in exercising their right to reparation, the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) filed two compensation lawsuits against the Republic of Serbia (RS) at the First Municipal Court on behalf of Sabit Bibić from Sjenica who was tortured by Sjenica Internal Affairs Department (OUP) police officers in December 1993, and on behalf of Fehrat Suljić, a Bosniak who was abused by OUP Tutin police officers in February 1996.


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