Tenth Report on War Crimes Trials in Serbia during 2023
Tenth Report on War Crimes Trials in Serbia during 2023

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; Yugoslav wars; transitional justice; facing the past;
Summary/Abstract: In the reporting period, the War Crimes Department of the Higher Court in Belgrade issued one first-instance verdict. The War Crimes Department of the Court of Appeal in Belgrade issued five verdicts that concluded the proceedings with final force and effect3, and two decisions that annulled the first-instance verdicts and remanded the cases for retrial. In the reporting period, the POWCP, as it states, filed three indictments against seven persons, two of which are still in the examination phase before the competent court. During 2023, one proceeding was conducted in absentia. In 2023 also, the verdict of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, dating from 2014, by which Novak Đukić was sentenced to 20 years in prison, was again not executed. As from 2018, when it was determined by the expert that Đukić was not competent to stand trial, the expert opinion has been presented every 12 months, and every time the expert opinion has been the same.

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