ICTY

Vojislav Šešelj

Serb politician jailed by UN tribunal for identifying witnesses

24 July 2009
The United Nations tribunal for the former Yugoslavia today gave the leader of the Serbian Radical Party a 15-month jail term after finding him guilty of contempt of court for publishing the names of three protected witnesses in his war crimes trial.
ICTY courtroom

UN tribunal reverses contempt of court conviction of former Kosovo minister

23 July 2009
The United Nations war crimes tribunal set up in the wake of the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s today overturned the conviction of Kosovo’s ex-minister of culture, youth and sports for contempt of court for trying to intimidate a trial witness, but upheld the conviction on the same charge of one of his political advisers.
Milan Lukić (left) and his cousin Sredoje Lukić

Bosnian Serb cousins convicted by UN tribunal over horrific burnings

20 July 2009
The United Nations tribunal set up in the wake of the Balkan conflicts in the 1990s today convicted two Bosnian Serb cousins of war crimes, including the burning alive of scores of Muslim women, children and elderly men, an act the court said ranks among “the worst acts of inhumanity that a person may inflict upon others.”
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) building in The Hague

UN war crimes tribunal rejects Karadžić claim for immunity from prosecution

8 July 2009
The United Nations war crimes tribunal for the 1990s Balkan conflicts today rejected an application by the former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić that he should be granted immunity from prosecution because of an agreement he says he struck with the United States Government in 1996.
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) building in The Hague

UN tribunal upholds contempt of court conviction against Bosnian Serb

6 July 2009
The United Nations war crimes tribunal set up in the wake of the Balkan conflicts in the 1990s has upheld the conviction of a Bosnian Serb army officer who was given a four-month jail sentence earlier this year for refusing to testify in a case.