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Tribunal Residual Mechanism sets Ratko Mladić’s appeal for March 2020

FENA Press release

THE HAGUE/SARAJEVO, December 17 (FENA) - The UN court in The Hague has scheduled former Bosnian Serb military chief’s appeal against his conviction for genocide and other wartime crimes for March 17, 2020.

The appeals chamber of Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals has scheduled Ratko Mladić’s appeal for March 17 next year, as the former Bosnian Serb military commander challenges the first-instance verdict sentencing him to life imprisonment.

The UN court sentenced Mladić to life imprisonment in November 2017, finding him guilty of genocide in Srebrenica in 1995, the persecution of Bosniaks and Croats throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina, terrorizing the population of Sarajevo during the siege of the city and taking UN peacekeepers hostage.

Mladić appealed against the verdict, as did the Hague prosecution, which is calling him to be found guilty of genocide in six other municipalities in 1992.

The prosecutors will present their appeal a day after Mladić’s defense, on March 18.

A date for the final verdict has not yet been set, but Carmel Agius, president of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, has said it will be delivered by the end of 2020.

Mladić’s final verdict should have been handed down earlier than that, but following a challenge from the defense, three judges were removed from the trial after Mladić accused them of bias.

New judges were then appointed who needed time to familiarize themselves with the case, BIRN reports.

(FENA) S. R.

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