After Mico Stanisic, former Republika Srpska interior minister, announced he would go to The Hague voluntarily, the indictment against him was unsealed at the Tribunal. He is charged in ten counts with crimes against humanity and violations of laws and customs of war

Minister of the interior in the first Bosnian Serb war-time cabinet appeared for the first time before an ICTY judge, unrepresented by defense counsel. He pleaded not guilty on all 10 counts of the indictment charging him with crimes committed in 1992 by police forces under his command and control

The trial of Mico Stanisic, the first interior minister in the Bosnian Serb war government is expected to start between March and July 2008

The Office of the Prosecutor in the Hague Tribunal notes Stojan Zupljanin’s arrest has proven that the remaining fugitives from international justice are ‘within reach’ of the Serbian authorities, expressing hope that Zupljanin will soon be transferred to the UN Detention Unit and that the remaining three fugitives, Karadzic, Mladic and Hadzic, will follow

At his initial appearance before the Tribunal, Stojan Zupljanin exercises his right to postpone his plea for a month. False identity was his ‘only protection’, Zupljanin explains, when the Serbian political and police leaders ‘decided to eliminate’ the remaining four fugitives from international justice

Stojan Zupljanin wants to have his case joined with the one of Radovan Karadzic since, as he claims, both indictments allege the 'same criminal intent', participation in the 'same criminal enterprise' and in part 'the same crime base'

The judges have accepted that the crimes Zupljanin, Stanisic and Karadzic are charged with were part of the same ‘common plan’ to forcibly and permanently remove Bosnian Muslims and Croats from large swaths of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but they have nevertheless agreed that the joinder of their cases would not be in the interest of justice, since the indictment against the former Republika Srpska president is ‘significantly broader in scope’ that the other indictments

At the pre-trial conference, the Trial Chamber confirmed that the trial of Mico Stanisic, interior minister in the first Bosnian Serb war government, and Stojan Zupljanin, former chief of the Security Services Center in Banja Luka will begin on Monday, 14 September 2009

The trial of former high-ranking Bosnian Serb police officials Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin started today with the opening statement of the prosecution. Stanisic and Zupljanin are charged with taking part in the joint criminal enterprise in which police forces under their control perpetrated numerous crimes throughout BH

American historian Robert Donia dismissed the claims made by the defense of former Bosnian Serb interior minister Mico Stanisic that his expert reports lack ‘a broader perspective’ of the events in Bosnia. Donia argues that his goal was to ‘provide a broader historical context’ for the specific persons and events in the indictments

Former police inspector, a Bosnian Croat, described at the trial of Bosnian Serb police officials Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin how his fellow police officers regularly beat him during the six months he spent in a series of detention centers

The witness, an official of the Serbian Democratic Party from Kotor Varos is testifying under a subpoena at the trial of the former Bosnian Serb police leaders. He has confirmed that a special police unit from Banja Luka participated in the takeover of power in his municipality. According the unwilling prosecution witness, all ethnic groups in BH wanted power and it was just ‘a matter of time who will be the first to do it’

The SDS official from Kotor Varos says that as the chairman of the municipal Crisis Staff, he asked the accused Stojan Zupljanin to ‘put a stop to the arbitrary actions’ by the special troops of the Security Services Center from Banja Luka after they killed several non-Serbs in the yard of the local health care centre. They committed other crimes too

Former member of the Yugoslav rowing team Isak Gashi has described the suffering of Bosniak and Croat detainees in the Luka camp in Brcko. Gashi claims he saw five civilians being killed by police officers

Branko Djeric, prime minister in the first Bosnian Serb war government, contends that in 1992, the accused Mico Stanisic ‘got into the role of wartime police commander’ ‘bypassing’ the government in order to communicate directly with Radovan Karadzic who had real power

Stojan Zupljanin’s defense counsel didn’t show up in court today because the Belgrade Bar Association is on strike. When defense counsel was appointed to him by the court, Zupljanin spent the whole hearing on his feet in protest

Former police chief in Sanski Most admitted that Muslims and Croats were detained in the garages owned by Betonirka, a local company, and in the town sports hall. The witness contends however that they were arrested by the military police; the civilian police ‘only interviewed’ detainees

The defense of the first Bosnian Serb interior minister contends that Muslims and Croats threatened Serb interests in the BH MUP in 1991. The prosecution expert reminded the court that such accusations were levied against Serbs, too

The defense of Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin today cross-examined American historian Robert Donia, putting it to him that Bosnian Muslims and Croats were the first to implement the idea of independence, a long time before the Bosnian Serbs did. To prove their claims, they brought up Alija Izetbegovic’s Islamic Declaration and a fax message sent to Mate Boban

Prosecution witness giving evidence under the pseudonym ST 172 drafted daily reports from the Manjaca camp. In his reports, he told his superiors that ‘prisoners are dying of thirst’ and were subjected to ‘abuse and humiliation’. The witness wanted the military police to be alerted to the fact that ‘Manjaca is not a house of terror’ but ‘a camp for prisoners of war who should be treated humanely’

Prosecution witness testifying as ST 172 confirmed the defense argument that descriptions of Manjaca as a ‘concentration camp, a death camp or a killing camp’ were ‘a big lie’. The witness claims that out of a total of 4,403 persons that went through Manjaca ‘a grand total of five persons died’ in the ‘POW camp’

Vitomir Zepinic, pre-war deputy interior minister in BH, contends that the accused Stanisic and Zupljanin claimed that Serbs had been ‘pushed aside’ in the BH MUP. According to Stanisic and Zupljanin, there was an ‘anti-Serb conspiracy’ afoot in the Ministry

Vitomir Zepinic, former deputy interior minister in BH, says that the accused Mico Stanisic, the first police minister in the Bosnian Serb government, waved a gun at him, threatening to kill him. Some months later, Stanisic personally arrested Zepinic in Belgrade and took him to jail in Pale

In his evidence at the trial of Bosnian Serb police leaders, former BH deputy interior minister Vitomir Zepinic said that he regretted that MUP hadn’t arrested all the leaders of nationalist parties, as that would have allowed the people to opt for peace instead of war

Former Bosnian Serb policeman confirmed that the Panorama Hotel on Pale was at the same time the HQ of the former RS president Radovan Karadzic and of Arkan’s paramilitary units

Former chief of the Banja Luka police claims that Stojan Zupljanin agreed to place members of the so-called Serbian Defense Forces (SOS) under the control of the Security Services Centre although he knew that there were convicted felons in their ranks

Former chief of the Banja Luka public security station, appearing as an unwilling prosecution witness, agreed with Mico Stanisic’s defense that in 1992, homicides in Banja Luka were not motivated by ethnic hatred. People lost their lives for ‘paltry reasons’ and because of alcohol-fueled quarrels

At the trial of Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin, yet another former policeman contends that before the war, Serb personnel were marginalized in the MUP of the Republic of BH. When the Serb MUP was established, local crisis staffs and an inefficient judiciary prevented the police from doing their job

Former disciplinary prosecutor from the Public Security Station in Banja Luka says that the crime investigators from that station took part in interviewing the prisoners in the Omarska prison camp, but they were not in a position to see any ‘bad stuff’ because they ‘were in the camp only in the morning and never left their offices’

Beginning his evidence at the trial of the former Bosnian Serb police leaders, the first justice minister in the Pale government Momcilo Mandic amended his testimony from the Krajisnik trial: he no longer claims Mico Stanisic ordered him to send a dispatch setting up a separate Serb MUP. In the meantime, Mandic said, he ‘remembered’ that somebody else had ordered him to do that

Former Bosnian Serb justice minister Momcilo Mandic, testifying at the trial of Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin, claims the police had no jurisdiction over the camps and prisons for non-Serbs; the camps were established by the local authorities and the army, he says

According to the notes taken by British war reporter Ian Traynor, Stojan Zupljanin called the departure of Muslims and Croats ‘economic emigration’ and not ethnic cleansing. Zupljanin noted that non-Serbs gladly left Bosnia and Herzegovina because they were treated so well in European countries

Stojan Zupljanin’s defense contests the credibility of Ian Traynor, war reporter for the newspaper Guardian, claiming that he ‘lacks objectivity and is biased against Serbs’. Traynor replied that his articles ‘reflect the reality in the field’: the fact that the Serb forces were stronger, controlled two thirds of the BH territory, besieged Sarajevo and ethnically cleansed Eastern Bosnia

Former inspector of the Republika Srpska State Security says that in early April 1992 members of an armed formation called the Serbian Defense Forces were ‘masters of life and death’ in Banja Luka. Apart from ‘terrorizing’ the population, they appointed officials loyal to the Serbian Democratic Party to various top posts in the civilian and military institutions

In his evidence at the trial of former Bosnian Serb police officials, Radulovic, who served as inspector in the Republika Srpska state security service, claims the prison guards shot prisoners from the roof of the administration building in the Omarska prison camp, betting each other a beer that they would hit them in the specific spot

‘It’s war, things like that happen’: this was Stojan Zupljanin’s response to reports he received from former inspector in the Republika Srpska state security service who is now testifying at the trial of Zupljanin and Mico Stanisic

The defense of first interior minister in the Bosnian Serb government Mico Stanisic contends that Stanisic didn’t receive all the reports on the events in the Banja Luka area in 1992. According to the defense, the reports Stanisic received were doctored

Andras Riedlmayer, the prosecution’s expert for cultural heritage in the Balkans, testified about the destruction of Catholic churches and mosques in 14 BH municipalities listed in the indictment against Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin. The level of destruction of religious buildings varied: some were torn down, and in some cases every trace of their existence was destroyed. Even their foundations were dug out and removed, Riedlmayer said

In the spring of 1992, the police arrested, detained and tortured local Muslims in Pale. Some of them never returned after their arrest, the prosecution witness said at the trial of Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin

Former police officer, journalist, and prison camp detainee gave evidence on the humiliation the Croats and Muslims from Prijedor suffered in the Omarska prison camp where they were beaten up, starved and forced to sing Serb songs before a delegation which included the accused Stojan Zupljanin

Former judge of the Bijeljina court investigated the Yellow Wasps, a paramilitary unit, in 1992; they were accused of stealing cars. Today she said she would not have ordered their release from remand prison had she known about their involvement in the murders and torture of Zvornik Muslims

In his evidence at the trial of the Bosnian Serb police officials, a police insider says that the Serbian Democratic Party implemented ‘a planned policy of ethnic cleansing of Muslims throughout the RS territory’. According to the witness, Radovan Karadzic told him not to arrest Serbs even if they were guilty of crimes, in order to prevent ‘Serbs fighting Serbs’

Testifying at the trial of Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin, police insider says that in April 1992 Ratko Mladic told him that Stanisic – then RS interior minister –gave Arkan permission to loot around Sarajevo freely and keep the loot for himself

The defense of the former Security Services Center in Banja Luka claims that in 1992 the Serb police did investigate crimes against Croats and Muslims and filed criminal reports, but often failed to record them in appropriate crime logbooks. The current police director in the Republika Srpska MUP was asked by the prosecution to analyze the logbooks

Former employee of the State Security Service in Prijedor who worked as an investigator in the Keraterm prison says that the Service didn’t investigate the massacre in Room No. 3. In July 1992, more than 150 persons were killed there. According to the witness, the investigation ‘was under the jurisdiction of the public security service, and not the state security service’

Former president of the Serbian Democratic Party from Prijedor contends that ‘the rumors making rounds in the town blamed all illegal acts and lack of discipline by individuals and groups’ on the SDS. As the witness explained, all that SDS was actually trying to do was to ‘avoid the conflict’ and prevent ‘the replay of the tragedy’ that hit the Serbs in World War II

Former assistant justice minister in the Pale government says that Serbs kept prisoners in Vogosca and Ilijas ‘in poor conditions’, in a World War II bunker and a warehouse where detainees were ‘crammed in like sardines’

In a well-run state, the Prijedor police chief Simo Drljaca would end up in prison after an incident in which policemen from Prijedor murdered 200 Muslims at Koricanske Stijene. Instead, Drljaca attended a meeting with the highest-ranking officials, including the accused Stojan Zupljanin, claims former official of Bosnian Serb justice ministry

Former policeman from the region of Banjaluka says that the Muslim police officers from Kljuc were put on vacation to ‘think it over’ after they refused to wear the new Serb insignia on police uniforms. None of them ever rejoined the Serb police

The witness Ivo Atlija says that he had to sign a statement in the Prijedor police station ‘relinquishing all his moveable and immovable property’. Although the statement he signed claims the witness was doing it ‘voluntarily’, now Atlija says he did it because he knew that otherwise he ‘would not be allowed to get out of that hell’

The defense of the first Bosnian Serb interior minister contended that in 1992, the army controlled the police in some towns. Former VRS officer denied it, saying any military orders to that effect were ‘illegal’

Two eyewitnesses from Zvornik testified about the arrests of non-Serbs there in 1992. One of the witnesses contends that the police secured detention facilities where

The defense of the first Bosnian Serb interior minister alleges that the Territorial Defense in Zvornik controlled the police reservists guarding most of the detention facilities. The prosecution contends that police reservists were also part of the MUP headed by the accused Stanisic

Former vice-president of the Democratic Action Party in Prijedor municipality claims the Serbian Democratic Party ‘abandoned the agreement on the modalities of cooperation’ at both the local and republican level, set ‘ultimatums’ and refused to negotiate on possible compromises; this resulted in ‘an atmosphere of fear’ in Prijedor

Former official of the Democratic Action Party from Prijedor says that after Kozarac was shelled it was looted, and there was a method to the looting: the looters would first load kitchen appliances on the trucks, electronic goods went next, and finally the woodwork. Everything was stored in a single storage site

The defense of Stojan Zupljanin, former chief of the Banja Luka Security Services Center, contests the prosecution allegations that the police participated in the attack on Kozarac in May 1992, in the Prijedor municipality. About 800 Muslim civilians were killed in the attack

A report of the European Community Monitoring Mission in BH stated in September 1992 that innocent civilians detained in prison camps under the Bosnian Serb control were just ‘pawns in dirty games played by nationalist politicians’

The curfew in Doboj ‘applied to everybody in principle’ but as the witness, a former official from Doboj said, ‘I can say with a clear conscience that in practice it applied only to non-Serbs’. He ‘heard, saw and felt’ the curfew on his own skin

In his evidence at the trial of the Bosnian Serb police officials, a witness who was a prisoner in the Trnopolje camp claims that there was ‘total ethnic cleansing’ in Prijedor. The Muslim villages in the areas were attacked, the inhabitants were put in prison camps, killed, terrorized, raped, starved and deported from Serb territories

In 1992, Bosniaks in Banja Luka lived in a ‘ghetto, and felt like second-rate beings’ while uniformed Serbs ‘fired like crazy’ at houses and mosques. Police officers beat up non-Serbs in the infamous ‘red van’, the witness recounted. In order to be allowed to leave the town, the witness had to sign the ‘emigration paper’

Retired JNA colonel contends that General Momir Talic proposed that the number of persons killed in the Serb attack on Kozarac be changed in the report: from 800 down to 80

The Serb Red Cross from Prijedor charged prisoners in the Trnopolje prison camp for food. Women were often raped there and men were beaten up in a special room, contends doctor and former detainee

Former president of the Kotor Varos crisis staff contends that the accused chief of the Banja Luka police Stojan Zupljanin wasn’t in the delegation that visited a local prison in the fall of 1992, contradicting the evidence of a former prisoner who testified in November 2010

Prosecution military expert says that the Republika Srpska Army was there to implement the six strategic goals of the Bosnian Serb political leadership. Among those aims were the separation of ethnic community, the establishment of a corridor, the elimination of the border on the Drina River and the carve-up of Sarajevo

At the trial of former Bosnian Serb police chiefs Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin, prosecution military expert contends that the army and the police ‘coordinated" their actions or "cooperated’. The police was not subordinated to the army, the witness said. Had that been the case, it would have been stated clearly in military documents, and the police tasks would be specified, he claims

In its internal military reports in 1992, the VRS notes that many Croats and Muslims were expelled from their houses and detained without any evidence of wrongdoing. Nevertheless, the army ‘did not have any sympathy’ for them and never suggested that they should be released, prosecution military expert claims at the trial of two Bosnian Serb police officials

The defense of the former Banja Luka police chief claims that the inter-ethnic tensions in Kotor Varos were engendered by the murder and mutilation of Serb special police officers. The prosecution expert contends their deaths may have ‘added fuel to the fire’ in an atmosphere of growing tensions, caused by the Serb operations in which several municipalities had been taken over

The last witness of the prosecution at the trial of the former Bosnian Serb police officials described his detention in the police prison and the Territorial Defense hangar in Teslic. Prisoners were regularly beaten and many of them died as a consequence

The prosecution concluded its case at the trial of the former Bosnian Serb police officials charged with crimes against Croats and Muslims in 1992

The defense teams of two Bosnian Serb police officials, Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin, have been granted a total of 166 hours to present their case at the trial for crimes against Bosnian Croats and Muslims in 1992

In the opening statement, Mico Stanisic’s defense lawyers claim their client’s conscience is ‘clear’; the first police minister in the Bosnian Serb government ‘did more than was necessary’ to fight crime in general and prevent crimes against non-Serbs in BH in 1992 in particular

Expert witness called by the defense of the first interior minister in the Republika Srpska government began his evidence on the establishment and functioning of the Bosnian Serb police until 1993. The expert’s testimony is based on a report he has drafted for the trial of the former Bosnian Serb police leaders

The expert called by the defense of the first Bosnian Serb interior minister contends that the army and crisis staffs were in charge of prison camps where Croats and Bosniaks were detained. However, the police often provided security in the prison camps because they were ordered to do so by the crisis staffs or because there were ‘unresolved issues’ with the army

Contesting the claims made by Stevo Pasalic, demography expert called by the defense of the first interior minister in the Bosnian Serb government, the prosecutor argued that some of the data Pasalic used were ‘statistically useless’ due to inconsistencies in the methodology

The prosecution contested the qualifications of the demography expert called by the first Bosnian Serb interior minister. According to the prosecution, the public statements he made about the inter-ethnic relations in BH make it clear that the witness is not capable of producing an ‘impartial and moderate’ demographic report that would be of use for the trial

At the trial of the former Bosnian Serb police leaders, the prosecution contends there was no real effort to expel the ‘scum and murderers’ from the reserve police in Doboj in 1992

Former director of the Republika Srpska police says that in 1991 Croats and Muslims working in the BH MUP met in secret; unlike Serbs who did it openly, Croats and Muslims were ‘wise and more perfidious’

Members of the notorious paramilitary unit the Yellow Wasps were arrested in late July 1992 in a special operation launched by the police. The police filed criminal reports against them and handed the men over to the court. As the former Bijeljina police chief recounted, the paramilitaries were then released on the orders of an investigative judge

The Bijeljina police did nothing to prosecute the paramilitaries from various groups that came from Serbia. Instead, the police returned them to Serbia because otherwise they would have to build ‘more prisons than we had military barracks in Republika Srpska’. So the police ‘got rid of them as quickly as we could’ by transferring them to Serbia, says the former RS MUP official

The last witness called by the defense of the first Bosnian Serb interior minister began his evidence today. Goran Macar, who was the chief of the RS MUP Criminal Investigations Division contends that the Serbs and Croats formed their ethnic police forces in early 1992 to prevent ‘the domination of the Muslim personnel’

Stojan Zupljanin’s defense started its case today with an opening statement. Zupljanin’s defense counsel insisted that the former chief of the Banja Luka police had done as much as he could to ‘prevent or mitigate’ the consequences of events in 1992. However, Zupljanin ‘was not up to the situation’, Krgovic said, adding ‘it is not a war crime to be a bad police chief’. The first defense witness is military expert Vidosav Kovacevic

Military expert called by Stojan Zupljanin’s defense is ‘an open advocate and apologist of Serb nationalism’, using ‘non-scientific methods’ and presenting ‘uncorroborated’ claims in his report, the prosecutor contends

The prosecution has asked the judges to reject the expert report and the evidence of Vidosav Kovacevic because of his partiality and lack of expertise. The defense contends that Kovacevic was ‘the most qualified’ person to speak about the relationship between the army and the police in RS. Prosecution experts ‘don’t have a clue’ about it, the defense argued

Former employee of the Security Services Center in Banja Luka denies that the members of the special unit were part of the Center. According to the witness, the ‘special unit’ could have been part of the army. He never saw the specials, at any rate. He merely ‘heard’ that in May 1992 the special unit took part in a police parade

In mid-1991, chief of the Banja Luka police Stojan Zupljanin was ‘flabbergasted’ when he saw at a meeting in the MUP headquarters that a document was printed on green paper. Zupljanin wondered if this was a ‘sign of the Muslim domination’ in the republic police

At the trial of two former chiefs of the Bosnian Serb police, Milos Jankovic, former chief of the Prijedor police Communications Center described how the Keraterm prison camp was ‘whitewashed’ for the visit of the International Red Cross staff. As a consequence, everybody looked ‘a bit better than usual’

When Stojan Zupljanin heard for the first time that the conditions in Omarska and Keraterm were ‘bad’ and that there were instances of ‘abuse’, he said he would order an investigation and ‘do everything in his power’, former employee of the Banja Luka police Goran Sainovic claims. Through Sainovic’s evidence, the defense is trying to challenge the claims made by Predrag Radulovic who testified in this trial last year. Radulovic said that Zupljanin said such things happened in war

General Slavko Lisica testifies at the trial of Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin as one of the witnesses called by the Trial Chamber. Lisica contends that military commanders were responsible for everything, from kindergartens and schools to businesses and the police. The prosecutor claims that Lisica may have wanted it to be so, but the reality was different

Although a state of war was not declared in Republika Srpska in 1992, retired VRS general Slavko Lisica ‘considered there was a war going on’. This is why everybody, including the police, had to obey his orders ‘without demur’. The prosecutor tried to prove that military commanders had ‘limited’ responsibility

After the evidence of the former deputy to the RS interior minister Tomislav Kovac, the parties rested their cases at the trial of RS police officials for crimes against Croats and Muslims in 20 BH municipalities in 1992. The trial lasted more than two years, and the court heard 147 witnesses in its course

Stojan Zupljanin’s defense seeks leave to tender into evidence the prosecution’s interview with Srdja Srdic, former SDS delegate from Prijedor. The interview was disclosed to the defense after it rested its case

The closing arguments at the trial of Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin have been scheduled to start on 21 May 2012. The former Bosnian Serb officials are on trial for crimes against Croats and Muslims in BH in 1992

In the closing argument at the trial of Republika Srpska police officials Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin, the prosecution argued that the Bosnian Serbs had armed themselves to prevent Bosnia and Herzegovina’s independence by force, after they failed to do so by political means

In the closing argument at the trial of the former Bosnian Serb police officials, the prosecution has called for life imprisonment for Mico Stanisic, the first RS interior minister, and Stojan Zupljanin, former head of the Security Services Center in Banja Luka. The two are on trial for crimes against Bosnian Croats and Muslims in 1992

In its closing argument, the defense of the first RS interior minister Mico Stanisic denies he was part of a joint criminal enterprise aimed at eliminating Croats and Muslims from Serb-controlled parts of BH. The defense has asked for his acquittal on all counts in the indictment. The defense of the second accused Stojan Zupljanin likewise believes the prosecution has failed to prove his guilt beyond reasonable doubt

The defense of Stojan Zupljanin, war-time chief of the Security Services Center in Banja Luka, called for his acquittal on all counts in the indictment of for a minimum sentence. The defense labeled the prosecution’s demand for life imprisonment for Zupljanin ‘senseless’

Former Bosnian Serb police minister Mico Stanisic has been granted three-month provisional release and can apply for an extension. Now that the trial for crimes against Bosnian Croats and Muslims has ended, Stanisic will await his judgment in Belgrade. The prosecution has asked for a life sentence for Stanisic

Former Bosnian Serb police officials Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin were sentenced to 22 years in prison for the crimes against Bosnian Croats and Muslims in 1992. Stanisic and Zupljanin were found guilty of persecution, murder, torture and other crimes perpetrated as part of the joint criminal enterprise. The objective of the crimes was to permanently remove Bosnian Muslims and Croats from the territory of the planned Serb state

The prosecution asks the Appeals Chamber to dismiss the motions filed by Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin to append Judge Harhoff’s letter to their notices of appeal. The letter purportedly shows Harhoff’s bias. According to the prosecution, the decision to disqualify the Danish judge from the Trial Chamber hearing the Seselj case is ‘erroneous, issued in another trial, and is not final’

The defense of former Bosnian Serb interior minister Mico Stanisic has filed a motion to the Appeals Chamber to declare a mistrial. In the motion, the defense recalls that the prosecution’s motion for the reconsideration of the decision to disqualify Danish judge Frederik Harhoff has recently been rejected. Harhoff was one of the three judges that convicted Stanisic and Zupljanin

Stojan Zupljanin’s defense joined the defense of Mico Stanisic, and filed a motion for a mistrial in the case against the former Bosnian Serb police leaders. At issue is the involvement of the Danish judge in the deliberations that resulted in the conviction of their clients: Harhoff was disqualified from the Trial Chamber in another case because of his alleged bias in favor of the conviction of the accused. The defense also called for the disqualification of Judge Liu because he voted against Harhoff’s disqualification

Three-judge panel, appointed On Monday, will rule on the motion filed by Stojan Zupljanin and Mico Stanisic in which they sought the disqualification of Chinese judge Liu from the Appeals Chamber which is to consider the defense motion to quash the trial judgment in the case against the Bosnian Serb police officials. The defense argues the judgment is unsafe because Danish judge Harhoff was one of the judges in the trial chamber

A panel of judges rejected the motion filed by former Bosnian Serb police officials to disqualify the Chinese judge from the Appeals Chamber set to hear their motion to quash their convictions on the grounds of alleged bias of one of the trial judges

The motion filed by the former Bosnian Serb police chiefs Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin to declare a mistrial and to reverse the trial judgment because of the alleged bias of Judge Harhoff has been denied. Judge Harhoff sat on the Trial Chamber that found Stanisic and Zupljanin guilty of the crimes committed in 1992

A status conference in the appellate proceedings in the case against former Bosnian police minister Mico Stanisic and Banja Luka region police chief Stojan Zupljanin was held today. The decision on the motion to amend the appellate briefs will be delivered in due course

The defense of the first Bosnian Serb police minister has asked the Appeals Chamber to reconsider the decision to dismiss the defense’s motion to reverse the trial judgment. Disqualified judge Frederik Harhoff was one of the judges who rendered the judgment

A status conference was held in the appellate proceedings in the case against former Bosnian Serb police minister Mico Stanisic and chief of the Banja Luka region police Stojan Zupljanin. The appellate hearing will take place in 2015

At the regular status conference in the appellate proceedings in the case against former Republika Srpska police officials it was indicated that an appellate hearing would most likely be held in April or May 2015

The transcript of Mico Stanisic’s testimony at the trial of former Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic will not be admitted into evidence in Stanisic’s appellate proceedings

At a status conference in the case against former RS police officials it has been announced that the appellate hearing - slated for April 2015 - would be held after the Tribunal's summer recess. This means that the accused will have to wait until next year for the appellate judgment

The appellate hearing in the case against the two former Republika Srpska police officials will be held in November 2015. The final judgment is expected in the spring of 2016

Judge Carmel Agius states that the appellate hearing in the case against Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin has been rescheduled either to December 2015 or, more likely, to January 2016, for 'a combination of reasons'. The appellate hearing was initially slated for November 2015

The appellate hearing where the parties will present their arguments against the trial judgment has been slated for 16 December 2015. The Trial Chamber sentenced Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin to 22 years in prison for crimes against Muslim and Croatian population in 20 municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina

At the appellate hearing today, the defense teams of Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin presented their arguments in support of their demand for the trial judgment to be quashed or for the sentence of 22 years in prison to be reduced. Their demands center on the possibility that the proceedings against them may be terminated because of the 'impression' that one of the judges in their trial chamber, Frederik Harhoff, was 'biased'. The prosecution has rejected those demands and has called for stiffer sentences, in the range from 30 to 40 years

In a very interesting comparative analysis, the prosecutor noted that sentences imposed on Stanisic and Zupljanin were only slightly higher or indeed in some cases milder than those meted out to the direct perpetrators of crimes, although Stanisic and Zupljanin were convicted of crimes that resulted in ‘six-figure number of victims’. The prosecutor consequently called their sentences to be increased from 22 to 30 or 40 years in prison. At the end of the appellate hearing the two accused addressed the Appeals Chamber

It has been announced at the last status conference in the case against the former Bosnian Serb police leader that the Appeals Chamber would render its judgment in late June 2016

The Appeals Chamber will render the final judgment in the case against two former Bosnian Serb police leaders, Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin, on Thursday, 30 June 2016

The Tribunal's Appeals Chamber has confirmed the first instance judgment in the case against former Bosnian Serb police leaders Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin. The two accused were sentenced to 22 years in prison each by the trial chamber and those sentences have been conformed too. They were convicted of crimes against Bosnian Muslims and Croats, committed between early April and late December 1992. Their defence teams failed to prove that the Danish judge Harhoff was 'biased', although he had been disqualified from the chamber in the Vojislav Seselj case