Hague Tribunal
The Hague-based Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals will pronounce on June 30 a verdict in the retrial of two Serbian Security Service chiefs, Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic Frenki, charged with crimes against non-Serbs during the 1990s wars in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The co-indictees, who had been granted release pending trial, were ordered back to the Scheveningen detention unit in The Hague on June 24, a representative of the court, Helena Eggleston, said to BETA on June 28.
In their closing arguments last April, the prosecutors requested the court to sentence to life Jovica Stanisic, a former security chief, aged 71, and his peer Simatovic, the lead security service operative, for the persecution, murder, deportation and forcible transfer of Croats and Muslims from 1991 to 1995.
The court had qualified the crimes as crimes against humanity and violations of laws and customs of war. The defense wanted the two security officials to be acquitted, having found that the prosecution had failed to prove their guilt.
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