News in English     | 11.12.2018. 19:46 |

War crimes indictee Radovan Karadžić asks for release before final verdict

FENA Press release

THE HAGUE/SARAJEVO, December 11 (FENA) - Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadžić asked the UN court in The Hague to grant him a provisional release until the final verdict in his trial next year.

Radovan Karadzic asked the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Tuesday for a provisional release until his second-instance verdict is handed down in 2019 because the ruling, originally due this month, was postponed.

The postponement was caused by changes to the judging panel after the presiding judge, Theodor Meron, removed himself from the proceedings after Karadzic’s defense accused him of bias.

Karadzic’s defense also asked for the court’s appeals chamber to start deliberating the verdict again because of the changes to the judging panel, although the proceedings had already reached their final stage when Meron stepped down.

Confirming that the verdict in the Karadzic trial will be pronounced next year, Judge Vagn Joensen called on the defense lawyers to present their request in a written motion.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia found Karadzic guilty in March 2016 of genocide in Srebrenica, the persecution of Bosniaks and Croats throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina, terrorizing the population of Sarajevo and taking UN peacekeepers hostage. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison.

Karadzic appealed against the verdict, but the Hague prosecution also filed an appeal asking for him to be found guilty of genocide in six other Bosnian municipalities and imprisoned for life, BIRN reports.

(FENA) S. R.

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