ICTY

UN tribunal upholds 35-year jail term for leader of breakaway Croatian Serb state

8 October 2008
The United Nations war crimes tribunal set up after the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s today upheld a 35-year jail sentence of a former political leader of rebel Serbs in Croatia who was convicted for his role in a campaign of ethnic cleansing.

UN tribunal temporarily releases former top Yugoslav official from jail

2 October 2008
The United Nations war crimes tribunal set up in the wake of the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s has granted temporary release to a former senior Yugoslav government figure facing trial over an alleged campaign of terror and violence against Kosovo Albanians and other non-Serbs in 1999.
Momcilo Perišic

Trial of former Yugoslav army chief begins at UN war crimes tribunal

2 October 2008
The war crimes trial of a former chief of the Yugoslav army got under way today at the United Nations tribunal set up to try those accused of the worst war crimes committed during the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s.

Security Council extends terms of judges on UN’s Balkans war crimes tribunal

29 September 2008
The Security Council today extended the terms of office of a number of judges serving on the United Nations tribunal set up to deal with the worst war crimes committed during the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s to help the court to finish its caseload at the earliest.

Albania becomes latest country to enforce sentences imposed by UN tribunal

19 September 2008
Albania signed an agreement today to become the latest European country to enforce the sentences imposed by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which was set up by the United Nations to deal with the worst war crimes committed in the Balkans in the 1990s.

Poland agrees to enforce sentences imposed by UN war crimes tribunal

18 September 2008
Poland today became the sixteenth European country to sign an accord agreeing to enforce the sentences imposed by the United Nations tribunal set up to deal with the worst war crimes committed during the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s.

Bosnian Muslim army chief receives three-year jail term from UN tribunal

15 September 2008
The head of the Bosnian Muslim forces during the Balkan wars of the 1990s was today sentenced by a United Nations court to three years’ imprisonment over the cruel treatment his troops inflicted on Bosnian Serb soldiers captured during the conflict.

Serbian ultranationalist aide found guilty of contempt by UN tribunal

11 September 2008
A former aide to a top Serbian ultranationalist politician has been found guilty of contempt by the United Nations tribunal set up to deal with the worst war crimes committed during the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s.

UN war crimes tribunal approves temporary release of former Serbian president

10 September 2008
Former Serbian president Milan Milutinović has been granted temporary release by the United Nations tribunal set up to deal with the worst war crimes committed during the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s so that he can return to his homeland to undergo a medical procedure.

Former staffer at UN’s Balkans war crimes tribunal facing contempt charges

27 August 2008
A former prosecution spokesperson at the United Nations war crimes tribunal set up to deal with the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s was today charged with contempt of court for allegedly disclosing confidential information relating to the case of Slobodan Milošević.