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| |  | | Biljana Plavsic | | | context : | Former Yugoslavia  | | judgement place : | ICTY (Yugoslavia) | | status : | Sentenced | | particulars : | Sentenced to 11 years imprisonment and transferred to Sweden; two appeals for pardon rejected by the Swedish government on 26 April 2007 and on 4 December 2008 | | position : | Member of the Collective Presidency of Bosnia Herzegovina |
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| | | | The Biljana Plavsic case is, until today, the only one where the ICTY has convicted a woman.
Before her, no other international jurisdiction had ever convicted a woman, in particular, the International Military Tribunal of Nuremberg and the International Military Tribunal of Tokyo.
For its part, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has also instituted proceedings against a woman, Pauline Nyiramasuhuko. | |    | |  |  | | nationality : | | | Bosnia and herzegovina | | | date of birth : | | | 07.07.1930 | | | last time seen : | | | Sweden | | | period of charges : | | | 01.07.1991 - 30.12.1992 | | | judgement period : | | | 11.01.2001 - 27.02.2003 | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
Genocide
War crimes | | | profile last modified : | | | 07.12.2008 |
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