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| |  | | Radovan Karadzic | | | context : | Former Yugoslavia  | | judgement place : | ICTY (Yugoslavia) | | status : | Indicted | | particulars : | Arrested on 21 July 2008 in Belgrad; initial appearance before the ICTY on 31 July 2008; the judge pleaded not guilty to all charges on his behalf on 29 August 2008 | | position : | President of the Republika Srpska, Head of the SDS |
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| | | | The first Indictment against Radovan Karadzic and Radko Mladic (see "related cases") was filed on 24 July 1995 by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and confirmed on 25 July 1995. It accused Radovan Karadzic and Radko Mladic of genocide, crimes against humanity, serious breaches of the Geneva Conventions and violations of the laws or customs of war.
A second indictment was then filed on 14 November 1995 and confirmed on 16 November 1995. It alleges that Radovan Karadzic and Radko Mladic are responsible for the serious breaches of humanitarian law committed by the Bosnian Serb forces during the siege and capture of the security zones in Srebrenica in July 1995. This Count of Indictment included charges of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and violations of the laws or customs of war.
Following these accusations, arrest warrants were issued and sent to the RFY, to the Republic of Bosnia Herzegovina and to the Serbian Administration of Bosnia in Pale. By June 1996, with both the accused still not arrested, and in accordance with Rule 61 of the Tribunal’s rules of procedure and evidence, the judges ordered a review of the Counts of Indictment by a lower court. Hearings were held between June and July 1996 and the Lower Court summoned the Tribunal to add to the Indictment on genocide, based on Art. 7 § 3 ICTY Statute, the accusation based on his responsibility by virtue of Art. 7 § 1 ICTY Statute.
In the amended Indictment, Radovan Karadzic is being prosecuted on the basis of his individual criminal responsibility and/or on the basis of his criminal responsibility as the hierarchical superior for genocide, complicity in genocide, crimes against humanity, violations of the laws or customs of war and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions.
Governement sources in Belgrade announced on 21 July 2008 that Radovan Karadzic was arrested and brought before an investigative judge of the War Crimes Court in Belgrade, in accordance with the law on cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
On 30 July 2008, Karadzic was transferred to the ICTY in the Hague.
His initial appearance before the pretrial judge took place on 31 July 2008.
He further appeared in court on 29 August 2008 when refused to respond to charges in the current indictment against him, saying he was waiting for a new one that is due to be filed. As the tribunal’s rules require that a plea has to be entered within 30 days of the initial appearance of the accused, the pretrial judge entered a not guilty plea to all charges in the indictment on Karadzic’s behalf.
The next hearing is scheduled for 17 September 2008. | |    | | Trial Watch would like to remind its users that any person charged by national or international authorities is presumed innocent until proven guilty. | |  |  | | nationality : | | | Bosnia and herzegovina | | | date of birth : | | | 19.06.1945 | | | last time seen : | | | The Hague, Netherlands | | | period of charges : | | | 01.07.1991 - 19.07.1996 | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
Genocide
War crimes | | | profile last modified : | | | 30.08.2008 |
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