Eighth Report on War Crimes Trials in Serbia during 2021
Eighth Report on War Crimes Trials in Serbia during 2021

Author(s): Marina Kljaić
Subject(s): Criminal Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Wars in Jugoslavia
Published by: Fond za humanitarno pravo
Keywords: War Crimes; transitional justice; Yugoslav Wars;
Summary/Abstract: In the reporting period, the War Crimes Department of the Higher Court in Belgrade handed down first-instance judgments in five cases. It also rendered decisions terminating criminal proceedings in respect of three defendants who had died, and dismissed the indictments against two defendants who had become unfit to stand trial. The War Crimes Department of the Court of Appeal in Belgrade handed down six judgments4 and three rulings on appeals lodged against judgments of the Higher Court in Belgrade quashing the first instance judgments and remanding the cases for retrial. In the reporting period the OWCP issued seven indictments against nine persons.

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