News in English     | 07.05.2019. 16:54 |

Hague Tribunal Mechanism orders monitoring of Radovan Karadžić’s phone calls

FENA Press release

THE HAGUE, May 7 (FENA) - The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals has decided to monitor the calls made from detention by former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadžić after he phoned into a live debate in Montenegro without permission.

The registrar’s office at Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals has said that it will listen in on Radovan Karadžić’s telephone calls for several days after he addressed a public debate in Montenegro by phone from the UN Detention Unit in the Netherlands, BIRN reports.

The registrar’s decision said that the commanding officer of the Detention Unit had not given Karadžić permission to use its communication facilities “to publicly spread information in any form”.

The commanding officer was told to listen to and summaries Karadžić’s conversations over the five days before May 6, apart from calls that are subject to legal privilege, and his conversations in the seven days from May 6.

“Monitoring and listening to the detainee’s recent, previous and future non-privileged telephone conversations over a certain period of time is needed in order to investigate potential violation of the rules and help ensure security and order at the Detention Unit of the United Nations, and is in the interest of administration of justice,” the registrar’s office said.

Karadžić, who was convicted of genocide and other wartime crimes in March, addressed the public discussion in Podgorica over the phone on Friday. The Hague Tribunal war crimes convict Momčilo Krajišnik was a guest speaker at the debate.

Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladić was also sanctioned by the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals over a similar incident last November, when he phoned into a live broadcast on Serbian television station Happy TV.

The court ruled that Mladić’s telephone calls should be monitored for a month.

Karadžić was sentenced to life in prison for the genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica, terrorizing the civilian population of Sarajevo with a long-running campaign of shelling and sniper attacks, the persecution and extermination of Bosniaks and Croats in 20 municipalities across the country, and taking UN peacekeepers hostage.

His request for an appeal was turned down last month, but he has asked for a review of the court’s decision.

(FENA) S. R.

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