Nineth Report on War Crimes Trials in Serbia during 2022
Nineth Report on War Crimes Trials in Serbia during 2022

Author(s): Marina Kljaić
Subject(s): History of Law, Criminal 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 a decision terminating criminal proceedings in respect of one defendant who had died. The War Crimes Department of the Court of Appeal in Belgrade handed down two judgments. Over the reporting period, the OWCP reportedly issued 12 indictments against 19 persons, five of which were transferred from BiH. The report focuses on the work of the Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor (OWCP) and of the courts in parts of the judicial proceedings open to the public, primarily by analysing the indictments and the judgments in each particular case. An analysis of the work of other bodies involved in the prosecution of war crimes – the War Crimes Investigation Service of the Serbian Ministry of the Interior (MUP), the Witness Protection Unit and others, cannot not be undertaken in respect of the individual cases, as no information on their activities is publicly available.

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