Wartime Bosnian presidency member Ejup Ganic appeared before the Magistrate's Court in London today for a hearing regarding a Serbian request for his extradition. The Court ruled that the process to extradite Ganic to Serbia could go forward, and ordered a further hearing to be held on April 20.
>>>Ejup Ganic will appear today before the Magistrate's Court in London for a hearing related to requests for his extradition, while a British lawyer with expertise in extradition cases told Balkan Insight that such proceedings in the UK can take months.
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Serbian President Boris Tadic said Thursday in Medvedja, in southern Serbia, that the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina has been unnecessarily dramatized and that there is no threat of war in the country.
>>>Part of the Croatian war veterans register, which has controversially not been made public by the government, was leaked on a website last night. Visitors to the website were able to see the names of Croatian soldiers who fought during the war in the country in the early 1990s.
>>>Serbian Parliamentary Speaker Slavica Djukic Dejanovic said that a declaration condemning crimes committed against Serbs in the former Yugoslavia will likely be adopted by June at the latest.
>>>Serbian Parliamentary Speaker Slavica Djukic Dejanovic has announced that she has drafted a working version of the declaration condemning crimes committed against Serbs in the former Yugoslavia.
>>>The Croatian Ministry of Justice believes that significant steps have been taken in prosecuting war crimes, while some NGOs claim that additional efforts are needed.
>>>Police in Australia reportedly cannot locate Dragan Vasiljkovic, known as Captain Dragan, one day after the Australian High Court ruled that the suspected war criminal can be extradited to Croatia.
>>>Croatian Ambassador to Serbia Zeljko Kupresak said that Serbian and Croatian governments need to discuss the possibility of withdrawing the genocide lawsuits they have filed against one another at the International Court of Justice, ICJ.
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After more than 13 hours of debate, the Serbian parliament adopted a resolution condemning the massacre of more than 7,000 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995, though stopping short of calling the crime a genocide.
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The Australian High Court ruled today that suspected war criminal Dragan Vasiljkovic, known as Captain Dragan, can be extradited to Croatia to face trial for alleged war crimes.
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Croatia has sent a request for the extradition of Nikola Munjes from Monetenegro after his arrest in the country last week.
>>>Serbian media have reported that the International Court of Justice, ICJ, could postpone until November this year the delivery of its opinion on the legality of Kosovo’s declaration of independence.
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Croatia will ask the United Kingdom to extradite Mile Bosnic, who was arrested last weekend in Gloucester.
>>>Serbian Parliamentary Speaker Slavica Djukic Dejanovic said that there is still no final text of the resolution condemning the Srebrenica massacre, but that she expected the draft resolution to be adopted by the end of month.
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Timeline - Transitional Justice in Serbia
Key dates and events in transitional justice in Serbia.