In his motion, Vojislav Seselj challenges virtually everything: from the legality of the founding of the Tribunal to its jurisdiction in general, and particularly, its jurisdiction over alleged violations of international humanitarian law committed in the territory of Vojvodina.

The Office of the Prosecutor wants the Trial Chamber to order Vojislav Seselj to accept its evidence in electronic form or, alternatively, to release it from the obligation to disclose statements sought by the accused.

The restrictions, first introduced last December, will be extended until Serbia’s presidential elections on 13 June 2004.

Seselj's claims that the Tribunal "has deprived him of his right to vote" and is "preventing him from contacting his family" are incorrect. Thirteen detainees from Serbia and Montenegro will vote at the polling station in the UN Detention Unit in Scheveningen on 13 July.

Trial Chamber orders prosecutors to say whether there was a state of armed conflict in Vojvodina during the time of the alleged crimes in Vojislav Seselj’s indictment.

Restrictions, first imposed last December, to be extended until the end of presidential elections in Serbia.

When Vojislav Seselj reaffirmed at a status conference his adherence to the "creation of Greater Serbia" along well-known lines, the judge interrupted him, advising him to "ponder in the silence of his cell" the so-called non-disputed facts presented by the prosecution.

The motion states that "there is not even a theoretical possibility" that the accused might pose a threat to victims since, simply, "there is not a single victim" that Seselj could be held responsible for.

Prosecutors challenge the Trial Chamber’s decision granting Vojislav Seselj’s motion claiming that the Tribunal lacks territorial jurisdiction in Vojvodina since there was no "armed conflict" there.

If Seselj were to be provisionally released pending trial, the prosecution claims, he would pose a threat to victims and witnesses and would have motive to refuse to return to The Hague

The Appeals Chamber overturns the decision of the Trial Chamber granting the motion filed by Vojislav Seselj in which he challenged the jurisdiction of the Tribunal over crimes against humanity committed in Vojvodina in 1992, as alleged in the indictment against the leader of the Serb Radical Party

Vojislav Seselj may file his specific requests pertaining to the disclosure of documents only in writing, the pre-trial judge decides. A video recording of Seselj's interview in English is shown at his status conference

On the basis of new evidence, the prosecution seeks leave to amend the indictment against Vojislav Seselj, including new allegations of crimes committed by Seselj's men in the wider regions of Sarajevo, Bijeljina, Mostar and Nevesinje.

Former leader of the Serbian Radicals is opposed to the motion to join the indictments and to try him jointly with Jovica Stanisic, Franko Simatovic and Milan Martic. His reasons are that he has "always been in conflict" with Stanisic and Simatovic and does not have "anything in common" with Martic

In a telephone conversation, the accused revealed the identity of a witness who has been protected on the basis of orders issued by several trial chambers, as he is expected to testify in several trials

Vojislav Seselj now claims that when he praised Slobodan Milosevic and Jovica Stanisic in his public statements for assisting in the organization, arming and equipping of Serbian Radical Party volunteers, he in fact wanted to "hassle ad provoke them into taking reckless repressive action" against himself and the SRS. He also explains the meaning of the "rusty spoon" and the "retorsion principle" from Hrtkovci

Since the amended indictment against Vojislav Seselj contains new charges the accused should plead on, the re-appearance of the Serbian Radical leader will be scheduled soon. The decision on the prosecution motion to join the cases against Seselj, Martic, Stanisic and Simatovic will be rendered "relatively soon," the judge announced

Because he had not had the opportunity to consult his "expert defense team", as he said, Vojislav Seselj postponed by 30 days entering his plea of guilty or not guilty to the crimes he is charged with in the amended indictment

Because he had not had an opportunity to consult his "expert defense team", Vojislav Seselj did not enter his plea to the counts of the amended indictment. The judge proceeded to enter a plea of not guilty to all 14 counts of the indictment in his stead. This appearance of the accused before the Tribunal broke all records of brevity

Preparations for the trial of Vojislav Seselj enters its final stage. Even if the accused refuses to agree to disclosure of evidence in electronic form, the Chamber will consider that the prosecution has fulfilled its obligation in that respect. The accused indicates he will be challenging many of the facts adjudicated in the final judgments in other cases before the Tribunal

Vojislav Seselj blames the Tribunal for not doing anything to unfreeze his bank accounts in foreign banks. After Seselj's expert defense team, headed by Tomislav Nikolic, threatened to stop providing further legal assistance, Seselj demanded that the Tribunal reimburse the costs of his defense costs to the amount of $ 6.3 million

Vojislav Seselj claims the ICTY Registrar has given him "written guarantees" putting out of force some of Trial Chamber’s decisions. Today, however, the Trial Chamber reminded the accused that the decisions remain in effect until “modified, withdrawn, or reversed” by the Trial Chamber itself or by the Appeals Chamber

At the status conference scheduled for 28 February, the parties will discuss the status of the preparations for the trial. The accused will have the opportunity to make a statement about his mental and physical health

The ICTY President has barely dismissed Seselj's motion for the disqualification of judges Orie and Hopfel, and now he has a new appeal filed by Seselj in front of him. The accused has appealed the Registrar’s decision not to consider "expenses list" of his "expert team", amounting to $ 6, 3 million to cover the costs of legal services provided to the accused

At the first status conference after his hunger strike, the accused Vojislav Seselj and the newly appointed pre-trial judge Jean-Claude Antonetti exchanged compliments, both expressing their astonishment at the manner in which the proceedings been conducted in the last four years

Vojislav Seselj accused the prosecution of trying to procure “false witnesses” to testify against him, using pressure and blackmail. Carla Del Ponte’s advisor rejected Seselj’s indignantly , but did not go into details because there might be an investigation into the matter at a later stage

Unlike Milosevic who never recognized the Tribunal and never ask money to finance his funding of the defense, at the status conference today Seselj admitted “that the Tribunal is a physical fact you can’t escape from”. And that is why he now asks for money

The Appeals Chamber dismisses Vojislav Seselj’s appeal against the decision the Trial Chamber delivered last year allowing the prosecution to disclose evidence to Seselj in “electronic form” – on compact discs – and ordering the Registry to assist the accused with the “computer hardware, software and training”

The ICTY president dismissed today the appeals filed by Vojislav Seselj against the Registry’s decision to reject the “expense list” submitted by Seselj. Seselj’s “expert team” asked for $ 6,35 million for the legal services they provided. The accused is advised to raise the issues of the fairness of his trial he had raised in the appeals before the Trial Chamber

Seselj continues enjoying favorable treatment from Judge Jean-Claude Antonetti. At the status conference today, Seselj admitted that six months ago he was ‘pleasantly surprised’ with Antonetti’s attitude, but today he was ‘shocked’ and ‘utterly flabbergasted’ by Judge Antonetti’s ‘inapprehensible unbearable’ attitude

A protocol was announced for the visit of Judge Antonetti to Vojislav Seselj in his cell and office of the UN Detention Unit. The purpose of this visit is to verify if the accused, who will be representing himself, has been provided with the adequate working conditions

Vladimir Lazarevic claims he wasn’t ‘Slobodan Milosevic’s personal choice’; after the change of the regime, he was decorated by President Vojislav Kostunica, he notes. He indicates his defense would nevertheless be based on the same argument put forward by Milosevic: Albanian civilians were expelled from Kosovo by the KLA and not by the Serbian security forces

At the pre-trial conference held before the opening of Vojislav Seselj’s trial, the prosecution indicates it intends to call 101 witnesses against the Serbian Radicals leader. The examination-in chief of those witnesses is expected to last about 170 hours. The Trial Chamber indicates that the prosecution could count with 120 to 125 hours. The decision on the issue will be communicated to the parties before the opening statement of the prosecution scheduled for tomorrow

Prosecution delivers its opening statement at the trial of Vojislav Seselj, Serbian Radical Party leader. According to the prosecution, Seselj contributed to the accomplishment of a joint objective: the permanent elimination of non-Serb population from the territory of the Greater Serbia, as it was envisaged. His contribution was the ‘fanatical and extreme rhetoric’ that fomented fear and hate among the Serbs and at the same time served to demonize and dehumanize Croats and Muslims

The hate speeches that instigated the commission of crimes, as the prosecution alleges were in fact Seselj’s ‘warnings’ or even ‘peace-making efforts, expressed in stronger terms’, says the Serbian Radical Party leader. He used those words in an effort to prevent attacks on Serbs in Croatia and BH. Seselj feels sorry for not being able to end like his ‘friend Saddam Hussein’.

US sociologist Anthony Oberschall, the first prosecution witness at the trial of the Serbian Radical Party leader, analyzes the contents of the 'xenophobic nationalist' discourse Seselj used to 'advocate and justify the violence of Serbs against non-Serbs'

Accused Seselj cross-examines the US sociologist who analyzed his nationalist discourse. Seselj suggests that his ’threatening discourse’ and his incitement to violence and violent re-drawing of borders would not be a prosecutable offence in the USA

US sociologist Anthony Oberschall, the first prosecution witness called at the trial of the Serbian Radical Party leader charged with crimes against humanity in Croatia, Vojvodina and BH, finished his testimony today. The trial continues on 8 January 2008

In 1993, Judge Frederik Harhoff took part in interviewing a prosecution witness due to testify against Vojislav Seselj. This is why the prosecution considers he was ‘involved in the investigation’ which precludes him from ‘sitting as a judge in the same case’. The accused opposed the request accusing the prosecution of trying to gain time because it is not ready for the trial. The ICTY president will decide on Judge Harhoff’s fate

The trial of the Serbian Radical Party leader is suspended pending the decision of the ICTY president on the prosecution motion to disqualify Danish judge Frederik Harhoff. Seselj is on trial for crimes against humanity in Croatia, Vojvodina and Bosnia Herzegovina

The ICTY president appointed a three-member panel to consider the prosecution motion for the withdrawal of Judge Frederik Harhoff from the Trial Chamber hearing the case of Vojislav Seselj

The trial of Vojislav Seselj continues following the dismissal of the prosecution motion for the disqualification of Judge Harhoff. Goran Stoparic, former Serbian Radical Party volunteer who fought on the battlefields in Croatia and Bosnia Herzegovina, took the stand today

Former volunteer Goran Stoparic continues his evidence describing how Lasta agency was founded in Sid in 1991. The agency acted as a go-between, arranging swaps of houses and property between Croats in Serbia and Serbs in Croatia. The profit was used to finance the local Serbian Radical Party board

Mere ten minutes into the trial today, the Trial Chamber decided to continue in private session. The Vojislav Seselj trial was then adjourned until next Tuesday. The accused wants the transcript of the trial in closed session yesterday to be made public. It appears that the topic was the mysterious text messages

In his cross-examination, Vojislav Seselj avoided any confrontations with his erstwhile follower, former Serbian Radical Party volunteer Goran Stoparic. He preferred to accuse the prosecution of first bribing and then abusing the witness

Prosecution witness Goran Stoparic started his career as a soldier in 1991 when he joined the ‘Chetniks’ and ended it in the Scorpions in 1999. As a volunteer of Seselj’s Serbian Radical Party in the Republika Srpska army, he fought side by side with Croats and with Abdic’s ‘Muslim army’ against the BH Army

In the first two days of the cross-examination, Seselj refrained from confronting with the prosecution witness who in turn mostly agreed with Seselj’s allegations. Today Seselj changed his tone, accusing Goran Stoparic of having ‘planned his whole testimony with Natasa Kandic’

In his expert report, Greater Serbia Ideology, Yves Tomic concludes that Vojislav Seselj is ‘intellectual descendant’ of the Chetnik movement. The Chetnik or Ravna Gora movement originated in World War II, and Seselj adopted its goal: the creation of a Greater Serbia, as ethnically homogenous as possible. Seselj’s followers implemented this goal by forcible transfer and expulsion of the population

According to Yves Tomic, the author of the expert report Ideology of Greater Serbia in the 19th and 20th Century, Serbs would not have majority in Seselj’s Greater Serbia if there were no ‘transfer of population’

At the beginning of his cross-examination of OTP expert witness Yves Tomich, Vojislav Seselj claims a French scholar with an MA degree in Slavic studies is not qualified to testify on the ideology of a Serbian ‘full professor with a doctorate in legal science’

After a rather long lecture on history and linguistics, Seselj finally came to the gist of the case as the cross-examination of French expert Yves Tomich drew to a close. It turned out, however, that the question he asked was addressed to the wrong witness. The military expert whose evidence is planned for next week will be able to provide the answer

When the presiding judge lectured him on the proper way to conduct his defense, Seselj said he wasn’t concerned about the judges not believing his claims. His arguments were not addressed to them, he explained, but to the public. Seselj urged the judges not to be concerned, because it was his goal to be sentenced to life

In the beginning of his cross-examination, Vojislav Seselj got the protected witness VS004 to confirm that the reason why Serbs in Croatia were afraid in 1990 was not the inflammatory rhetoric he practiced in Belgrade, but the actions of the new Croatian government

Seselj is trying to prove that the Serbian Radical Party volunteers were under the command of the JNA or the VRS – and not him – on the battlefields in Croatia and Bosnia Herzegovina, in an effort to deny he had command responsibility. This despite the fact that he is not charged with it at all

Military expert testifying for the prosecution at the trial of Vojislav Seselj described the origins and development of the volunteer units drafted by the accused in 1991 from the independent irregulars to the moment they became a part of the JNA

According to the prosecution military expert, Seselj’s Radicals and other parties started recruiting and sending volunteers to Croatia as early as in the spring of 1991. From August to December 1991, the Serbian government, the JNA General Staff and the SFRY Presidency passed decrees, instructions and orders to provide legal ‘cover’ for the actual state of affairs

According to prosecution military expert, SRS volunteers got their weapons and military equipment from three sources: from the JNA and later VJ, from the Serbian Interior Ministry and from the Serbian Defense Ministry

Vojislav Seselj objects to the use of a JNA document describing 'the Chetniks’ looting and their sadistic abuse of innocent Croatian civilians' in Vukovar. In his view, the document 'doesn't speak of the SRS volunteers but of Chetniks'

As the cross-examination of the prosecution military analyst continues, Vojislav Seselj says that when Serbian Radical Party started recruiting volunteers in early 1991 it in fact took over in part the role of the former Yugoslav League of Communists in the all people’s defense system

The prosecutor admits there were other formations calling themselves Chetniks that had nothing to do with the accused and the SRS. He also agrees there were ‘self-proclaimed Chetniks’ and that some other parties apart from the SRS ‘followed the Chetnik tradition’

The prosecution military expert confirms that there were no military attacks against civilians in Vojvodina in 1992. Seselj is now sure that the part of the indictment charging him with deportation and forcible transfer of Croats from the village of Hrtkovci in Vojvodina will thus have to be dropped

Mladen Kulic decided to forgo the protective measures under which he testified at the trial of Slobodan Milosevic. Now, at the trial of Vojislav Seselj, leader of the Serbian Radical Party, Kulic testified in open session about the events in Western Slavonia in 1991

Vojislav Seselj accused the prosecution witness Mladen Kulic of defending himself before a Croatian court by shifting the blame on others. Today Seselj applied the same strategy when he tried to shift the blame for the crimes in the village of Vocin in 1991 on the volunteer formations run by Mirko Jovic and Vuk Draskovic

Following the evidence last week of a protected witness who jumped off the truck moving captives from Ovcara to the execution site in Grabovo, another survivor from the Vukovar hospital testifies at the trial of Vojislav Seselj

In his cross-examination of Emil Cakalic, the accused Seselj said that ‘somebody’s mind ordered the shooting of 200 Croats’, implying it was General Aleksandar Vasiljevic,’, which is why those who actually carried out this order spared the lives of ‘seven persons’ from Ovcara hangar that ‘were surplus’

The prosecution tendered into evidence today about thirty videos recorded from 1991 to 1995 with the accused and his followers, ‘Seselj’s men’ or ‘Chetniks’ in leading roles. Seselj didn’t object to this, claiming some of them were ‘exculpatory’

Protected prosecution witness testifying at the Vojislav Seselj trial describes how the Serbian Radical Party volunteers terrorized captured Muslims from Zvornik. Miodrag Vukovic Cele, the commander of ‘Seselj’s men’ and a Chetnik vojvoda, war leader, beat an elderly captive to death at the ‘Ekonomija’ farm

In his examination-in chief yesterday, the witness identified vojvoda Cele as the perpetrator of the crimes against Zvornik Muslims. Today, Vojislav Seselj denied he had anything to do with Cele at the time of the attack on Zvornik in the spring of 1992, although he did admit that before and after that, Cele had been a volunteer and a member of parliament on the SRS ticket

Vojislav Seselj attempts to prove that the Muslims in Zvornik were tortured by self-proclaimed vojvoda Dusan Vuckovic Repic, member of Yellow Wasps, a paramilitary unit, and not one of ’Seselj’s men’ nicknamed ’ vojvoda Cele’, or just ’ Vojvoda’ as alleged by former detainees from Zvornik testifying for the prosecution

A man from Belgrade who was dispatched to Western Slavonia with the first group of the SRS volunteers in 1991 testifies at the trial of Serbian Radical Party leader charged with crimes against humanity in Croatia, Vojvodina and BH. Most of his evidence was given in closed session

Seselj claims there is a ‘joint criminal enterprise’ of the prosecution in The Hague and Natasa Kandic. By doing this, he wants to challenge in advance the credibility of any future ‘insider’ witnesses, former ‘Seselj’s men’ who would dare to give evidence against

Seselj took the opportunity as he commented on the video recording of his speeches from 1991 to join the election campaign and express his opposition to Serbia rapprochement to the European Union, where all the 'Serbian enemies and cons from all quarters of the globe' are

Protected witness describes how her husband and her two sons were killed in Zvornik by ’Arkan’s soldiers’. ’Seselj’s men’ took her out of her shelter and prohibited her from watching the execution. She was later deported to Serbia with other women and children. Once again, Seselj is not contesting the fact that crimes were committed, but denies the involvement of ’Seselj’s men’

Former prisoner detained in the Culture Hall in Celopek describes brutal murders, humiliating torture and sexual abuse of Bosnian Muslims in June 1992. Dusan Vuckovic called Repic was the ringleader, the witness says. The prosecution indicates it will be calling evidence to link the accused with the volunteers taking part in the murders and torture in the Zvornik area

According to prosecution witness testifying at the trial of Vojislav Seselj, there were ‘very unpleasant stories’ about Croatian atrocities circulating among Serbian volunteers in Vukovar; this made them ‘quicker on the trigger’

At the beginning of his cross-examination of protected witness VS 002, Vojislav Seselj expounds his 'Vukovar conspiracy theory'. According to Seselj, someone in the JNA leadership 'deliberately ordered that Vukovar be razed to the ground to hand Croatia a powerful propaganda weapon against the JNA and the Serbian people'. The witness agrees wholeheartedly

At the end of his cross-examination of prosecution witness Djuro Matovina, who testified about the massacre in the village of Vocin, Vojislav Seselj says the ‘show trial’ against him has ‘collapsed’ adding that so far ‘not a single witness or expert has managed to confirm any of the allegations in the indictment’. The trial will continue tomorrow, despite this assessment

The accused Vojislav Seselj today cross-examined Asim Alic, former police officer from Zenica. Seselj notes that in his statement to the OTP in 1997, Alic said the Vuckovic brothers had the ID cards of the Serbian Chetnik Movement, while in his proofing session last week he added they had the ID cards of the Serbian Radical Party after their arrest

Not challenging the right of the accused to defend himself as he sees fit, the presiding judge warns Seselj today on behalf of the Trial Chamber that he is using ‘suicidal tactics’. The accused replies that no lawyer at the Tribunal defends his client better than he does

In the words of Andras Riedlmayer, prosecution expert for cultural heritage in the Balkans, about ninety percent of Muslim and Catholic religious buildings were ‘almost completely or completely’ destroyed in the eleven BH municipalities listed in the indictment against Vojislav Seselj

Andras Riedlmayer, prosecution expert for cultural heritage of the Balkans, continued his evidence describing what he saw in the summer of 2002 in BH: the destroyed mosques were in most cases replaced by garbage dumps. In some cases, there were new residential buildings and Orthodox churches where mosques used to stand

Commenting on the conclusions of prosecution expert Andras Riedlmayer on the destruction of Muslim and Roman Catholic cultural heritage in BH, Vojislav Seselj agreed that there was destruction of mosques, blaming it ‘for the most part on Serbs’ but also on Tito’s regime. In fact, everyone is to blame, except his Serbian Radical Party. As Seselj alleged, his party condemned this destruction promptly and is the first to take part in their reconstruction

At the trial of Vojislav Seselj, protected witness VS 1055 describes the attack of ‘Chetniks’ on a village near Sarajevo. The witness, who was detained for months in camps in Podlugovi and Semizovac, doesn’t know who set up these camps but adds, ‘I know very well that we were captured and brought to the camps’ by Vasilije Vidovic Vaske and his Chetniks

In his cross-examination of protected witness VS 1055, Seselj repeatedly accused him of lying. The prosecutor objected strenuously, labeling such claims ‘impertinent and very dangerous’. The judges repeatedly warned Seselj to stop with such accusations which actually serve to ‘intimidate witnesses’

Vojislav Seselj claims Safet Sejdic, Roma from Sarajevo, joined the VRS voluntarily and fought bravely like a hero until the end of the war in BH. The witness replies he never saw combat and was forced to serve Serb soldiers

The accused wants the Trial Chamber not to allow the prosecutor to call witnesses who have changed their minds in the meantime and ’volunteered’ to testify in his defense. The prosecution indicates it intends to file a motion showing that witnesses scheduled to testify for the prosecution have not change their minds voluntarily but did so ‘under duress and because of threats’

In late May 1992, protected witness testifying under pseudonym VS-1064 survived the massacre in the Culture Hall in Drinjaca, where, as the indictment against Vojislav Seselj alleges, Chetniks killed 88 Bosniaks. The witness’s father and three of his brothers were among the victims

Prosecution witness Redzep Karisik survived the massacre of prisoners held in the stadium in Vrapcici near Mostar in June. The indictment against Vojislav Seselj alleges that the Serb forces killed eighty Bosniaks and Croats there

Protected witness VS-1052 recounts at the trial of Vojislav Seselj how he was detained and tortured in mid-1992: he was thirteen years old. Some members of his family were badly beaten, taken away and are still missing

Fahrudin Bilic describes how he survived a mass execution in the Mostar cemetery of Sutina in June 1992. As alleged in the indictment against Vojislav Seselj, the Serb forces killed eighteen Bosniaks and Croats from that region there

At the trial of Vojislav Seselj, prosecution tenders into evidence tapes and transcripts of intercepted telephone conversations from 1991 and 1992. According to the prosecution, the material shows the existence and functioning of the joint criminal enterprise that included the leader of the Serbian Radicals

Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj threatens to go on hunger strike if the Trial Chamber grants the prosecution motion to assign defense counsel to him

Former Serb volunteer Nebojsa Stojanovic denied the contents of the two statements he gave to the OTP investigators about the role Seselj and ‘Seselj’s men’ played in Vukovar. The Trial Chamber granted the prosecution motion to declare him a hostile witness and allowed it to ask leading questions

Hostile witness called by the prosecution at the trial of Vojislav Seselj denies ‘more than 90 percent’ of the contents in the statements he gave to the OTP investigators in 2004 and 2006, adding he would ‘withdraw the signature’ if he could

The prosecution files a motion to assign defense counsel to Vojislav Seselj and to exclude his legal advisers from the trial in an obvious attempt to prevent another ‘Haradinaj case’ where the prosecution lost key witnesses who were either pressured into not giving evidence or decided to change their testimony at trial

The Appeals Chamber orders the Trial Chamber to review its decision that there was not enough ground to charge Aleksandar Vucic, Seselj’s collaborator, with contempt of court for disclosing the identity of a protected witness

The Appeals Chamber dismisses the appeal filed by the prosecution against the decision of the Trial Chamber of 15 August 2008 to continue the trial of Vojislav Seselj regardless of the prosecution motion to assign defense counsel to the Serbian Radical Party leader. Seselj is charged with crimes against humanity in Croatia, Vojvodina and BH

The prosecution asks for permission to file an appeal against the Trial Chamber’s decision to keep the public documents not available to the public until the judgment is delivered in the case of Vojislav Seselj

When he learned that almost half of his village already knew that he would be protected witness of the prosecution at the trial of Vojislav Seselj, Vojislav Ejic renounced the granted measures of identity and image protection. He gives evidence on the events in the village of Hrtkovci in Vojvodina following the visit of the Serbian Radical Party leader in May 1992.

As his evidence continued at the trial of Vojislav Seselj, Aleksa Ejic, Serb from the village of Hrtkovci, gave several examples where his Croatian neighbors were pressured into moving out of their homes. Some of them received death threats, a bomb was thrown into the yard of a family, the witness said. Serb refugees would knock at their doors with chits saying that such and such a house was intended for a ’swap’

Leader of the Serbian Radical Party denies he and his party took part in creating an atmosphere of fear in which Croats decided to evacuate from the village of Hrtkovci. Seselj claims that he was set up by a ’conspiracy group’ headed by Serbian non-nationalist politicians Nenad Canak and Vesna Pesic

Vojislav Seselj accuses the prosecution witness first of being ‘an informer of the Serbian state security service’, then that he joined the HOS, a terrorist paramilitary formation in Croatia, and finally that his father was an Ustasha in World War II. The prosecutor objects to this attempt to ‘besmirch’ and ‘intimidate’ the witness but the judges do nothing

In her expert report about the out-migration of Croats and other non-Serbs from the village of Hrtkovci in 1992, demographer Ewa Tabeau concludes that in some ten years, the number of Croats and other non-Serbs in the village in Vojvodina dropped by 76%; the Serb population increased five times in the same period. Will Vojislav Seselj have to face contempt of court charges?

Vojislav Seselj claims that the migration of Croats and other non-Serbs from the village of Hrtkovci in Vojvodina might have been motivated by ‘economic reasons’; prosecution demographer Ewa Tabeau counters this claim, saying that the ’forcible migrations’, a result of the conflict, replaced the ’development motivated migration’ prevalent in the 1980s

Today Dr. Vesna Bosanac recounted what she knew about events preceding the Ovcara massacre in her evidence at the trial of Vojislav Seselj. She also spoke about the presence of ‘Chetniks’ in Vukovar. Seselj refused to cross-examine the witness. He did, however, bring up a new conspiracy against him, headed by the ICTY Registry, his former party colleagues Vucic and Nikolic and the US and British intelligence services

During Dr. Vesna Bosanac’s testimony, the presiding judge put to her a 'theory' of the accused Vojislav Seselj that the Ovcara massacre was perpetrated by ‘local Territorial Defense members bent on revenge’ and not by the SRS volunteers. The director of the Vukovar Hospital replied that the volunteers, members of the Territorial defense and the JNA ‘worked together’. Why did judge Antonetti ask Seselj to ‘try and restrain himself’?

In his statement to the OTP investigators, retired JNA colonel Milorad Vojinovic described how he passed by the hangar at the Ovcara farm moments before two hundred Croats were executed there. Vojinovic saw volunteers wearing Chetnik insignia cursing, beating and robbing the prisoners. Vojislav Seselj is charged with the Ovcara massacre

Former secretary-general of the Serbian Radical Party Aleksandar Stefanovic claims that the conspiracy by the late Serbian prime minister Zoran Djindjic and former chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte against the Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj hinged on him

The examination-in chief of Aleksandar Stefanovic, first secretary-general of the Serbian Radical Party, revealed that Stefanovic first mentioned him being allegedly pressured by Zoran Djindjic in May 2008. It is roughly one month after accused Seselj disclosed his theory of a ‘pact’ between the late prime minister and the former chief prosecutor against him. The judge warned the witness that he might be charged with perjury; in that case this would not be his last appearance before the Tribunal

Croatia ’ordered’ the massacre at Ovcara from the JNA Security Administration to ‘conceal the crimes against Serbs and speed up the process of its international recognition’, Vojislav Seselj contends in his latest ’theory’ concerning the crime in which over 200 prisoners of war were taken from the Vukovar hospital on 21 November 1991 and later executed

Reasons why the decision on the prosecution motion has been postponed are confidential and have been redacted from the Redacted Version of the Redacted Version of the Decision

The Trial Chamber hearing the case of Vojislav Seselj has decided by a majority vote that extended supervision of privileged communication of the accused might jeopardize the fairness of his trial. The Trial Chamber has ‘called’ on the ICTY Registry to ‘draw appropriate conclusions’. The Registry has opposed the majority decision and applied to the ICTY president for ‘urgent guidelines’ on how to proceed

In his cross-examination of Sulejman Tihic, president of the SDA party in BH, Vojislav Seselj said that he was 'moved' by Tihic's ordeal, but he nevertheless denied that 'Chetniks' were in any way responsible for the abuse of prisoners of war. The JNA Security Administration and its chief, General Vasiljevic were in fact behind the 'Chetniks', Seselj claimed

In his cross-examination of Sulejman Tihic, president of the BH SDA (Party of Democratic Action), Vojislav Seselj has focused on the founder of the SDA and the first president of the independent Bosnia-Herzegovina, so much so that he addressed the witness at one point as 'Mr. Izetbegovic'

Jovan Glamocanin, member of the Crimean International Academy of Spiritual Sciences was first to give evidence for the prosecution, then for the defense, and has finally been subpoenaed to testify at the trial of Vojislav Seselj

‘Academician’ Jovan Glamocanin claims that in early 2001 late Serbian prime minister Zoran Djindjic convinced him that it was necessary to ‘politically eliminate Seselj and to marginalize his SRS’ in the ‘interest of stabilizing the new pro-western government in Serbia’. As Djindjic told him, they were ‘more dangerous for Serbia than Milosevic and his Socialist Party of Serbia’. The court witness has been warned of the risks of perjury

The Serbian Radicals’ leader has indicated he might decide not to call any evidence in his defense unless the issues related to the financing of his defense are resolved. Judge Antonetti has reminded him it is his own fault because he has refused to provide the Registry with the full disclosure of his financial status. The hearing today proceeded in closed session for the most part

‘There is clear evidence that the integrity of the process has been compromised’, the prosecution claims, calling for the adjournment of the Vojislav Seselj trial. The motion has caught the presiding judge by surprise because it has come ‘less than 18 hours before the end of the case’

Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj is charged with contempt of court for revealing the identity of three protected witnesses and their evidence in a book he published. The ICTY Registrar is ordered to appoint amicus curiae prosecutor. The date when Seselj is to enter his plea on the new charges will be determined later

Challenging the evidence of protected witness VS 2000, Vojislav Seselj today said that as an educated man he would never call Muslims ‘pagans’: he knew that ‘Mohammad founded a new religion on the basis of Judaism and Christianity, infusing them with a new meaning but keeping the faith in one God’. One of the allegations in the indictment is supported by the claims of witness VS 2000

The Trial Chamber has granted the prosecution motion to suspend the Vojislav Seselj trial ‘until further notice’ because of ‘the danger that the integrity of the proceedings will be compromised’ and because of threats to prosecution witnesses

As Alija Gusalic was about to complete his evidence about his ordeal in the Batkovic prison camp, judges expressed their sympathy for his suffering. Seselj was very critical of it, arguing that they thus ‘prejudged the witness’s evidence’, which he considers to be ‘false’

During his initial appearance before Judge Kevin Parker, Serbian Radical Party leader has entered a plea of not guilty to a new indictment charging him with contempt of court for disclosing the identity and testimony of protected witnesses in a book he has written

At the first hearing on administrative issues since his trial was adjourned, Vojislav Seselj opposed the prosecution motion to tender into evidence statements and transcripts of testimony of two witnesses who have died in the meantime

Stanisic is mentioned in Seselj’s indictment as ‘one of high profile members of the alleged joint criminal enterprise’. Seselj has now requested the disclosure of the documents the Tribunal has received from the CIA about ‘the constructive contribution’ of the former Serbian secret police chief

At the trial for contempt of court, the prosecution has noted that the names and pseudonyms of protected witnesses disclosed by Seselj in one of his books were put together in such a way that ‘any person of normal intellect’ could identify them. Contrary to that, the accused contends that the identity of witness could be discovered only by ‘intelligent and clever persons’ with legal knowledge. As the accused put it, the whole case has been fabricated in order to impose defense counsel on him

Serbian Radicals’ leader Vojislav Seselj has been found guilty of contempt of court and sentenced to 15 months in prison, the highest sentence for that offence ever before the Tribunal. Disclosing the identity of the protected witnesses is ‘a serious interference with the administration of justice, particularly given the potential adverse impact of such conduct upon witnesses’ confidence in the Tribunal’s ability to guarantee the effectiveness of protective measures,’ the Chamber has warned

Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj has asked the Trial Chamber to reconsider its decision to suspend his trial and to order the prosecution to go on with its case

In the supplement to the motion to assign counsel to Vojislav Seselj, the prosecution notes that the accused has failed to comply with the Trial Chamber’s order to remove from his website the book in which he disclosed information on protected witnesses. The prosecution filed the motion in July 2008; in the meantime Seselj has been convicted for contempt of court on those charges

The Trial Chamber has rejected the prosecution motion, filed last year, to assign counsel to the Serbian Radical Party leader, because of his efforts to obstruct the trial and to abuse and intimidate witnesses. Seselj commended the judges, saying that he never questioned their ‘moral integrity and professional dignity’. The prosecution has indicated it would consider whether to appeal against the decision, after it receives the full decision in writing. Seselj has called for his acquittal for ‘abuse of process’

Granting Vojislav Seselj's motion for a reconsideration of its decision to adjourn the trial from February 2009, the Trial Chamber decided to resume it on 12 January 2010. The Trial Chamber rejected the prosecution’s motion for additional time to examine its remaining witnesses

After an 11-month suspension because of intimidation of witnesses and jeopardy for the integrity of the process, the trial of Vojislav Seselj continued today. The accused asked to be allowed to take part in the campaign for the by-election in Odzaci, a municipality in Vojvodina. Seselj demanded to be allowed to conduct a ‘telephone press conference’. The last prosecution witness, who was the police commander and SDS vice-president in Zvornik, began his testimony

Continuing his evidence at the trial of Vojislav Seselj, protected witness VS 037 confirmed that the takeover of Zvornik and the ethnic cleansing that followed were organized and coordinated from Serbia. The witness now denied what he had stated earlier, that the SRS volunteers played a significant role in it. The Trial Chamber referred Seselj’s request for a telephone press conference to the Tribunal’s Registry for consideration

Verifying the contents of books published by the accused is not in the mandate of the ICTY Registry, John Hocking says in his reply to the Trial Chamber in the Vojislav Seselj case. The Trial Chamber ordered the Registry to check if the new books written by the accused Serbian Radicals’ leader contain any confidential information on protected witnesses

In his statement to the OTP, the Trial Chamber’s witness Vojislav Dabic contended that the Red Berets and Seselj’s men were responsible for the murder of 76 Muslim civilians captured near Mount Velez on 22 June 1993. Today, Dabic maintained that ‘they were not real Seselj’s men’. According to Dabic, they were locals ‘wearing traditional Serbian caps and the Chetnik insignia’

Vojislav Dabic, the witness called by the Trial Chamber at the trial of the Serbian Radicals’ leader Vojislav Seselj, for the most part recanted what he had said in his statement to the OTP in 2004, claiming his words had been mistranslated. He also claimed that parts of his statement where he talked about the involvement of Seselj’s men in the crimes were ‘probably inserted by the prosecution’; alternatively, he heard from other people the things he then told the prosecution in those statements

Protected witness described in detail the crimes of Seselj’s men in Mostar and its environs. The accused contends that local paramilitaries were responsible for the crimes. According to the accused, the paramilitaries ‘misrepresented themselves’ as the SRS volunteers. Seselj indicated he intended to call for his acquittal in March, after the prosecution has rested its case. According to Seselj, the prosecution failed to prove his responsibility on all counts

In a new indictment for contempt of court, Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj is accused of disclosing information that may reveal the identity of 11 protected prosecution witnesses in a book he wrote

The Trial Chamber dismissed Vojislav Seselj’s motion to stop the trial for purported abuse of process. Zoran Krasic and Slavko Jerkovic see their status as legal advisers restored and will now be able to help Seselj with his case, if the accused decides to proceed with it

Seselj’s ‘warnings’ to Croats in Vojvodina to leave Serbia ‘had to be taken quite seriously’, Witness VS-067, former inhabitant of the village of Hrtkovci in Vojvodina, told the judges today, because at that time Vojislav Seselj was ‘a prominent political figure’ in Serbia and his party had sent its paramilitary formations to take part in the executions in Croatia and BH

Vojislav Seselj claims his demand to expel Croats from Serbia was in line with international law. Seselj contends that neither he nor his party had anything to do with the efforts to pressure Croats into leaving Hrtkovci

The witness complied with the subpoena and arrived in The Hague but refused to give evidence. A hearing on whether the accused should respond to the evidence called by the prosecution will be held in late May. Seselj wants to subpoena former chief prosecutor and her deputy to give evidence about their purported meetings with Tomislav Nikolic

Vojislav Seselj refused to enter his plea on the contempt of court charges. The indictment alleges that Seselj published in one of his books information that could lead to the identification of 11 protected prosecution witnesses. A new date for Seselj’s plea will be set forthwith

Vojislav Seselj once again refused to enter his plea on the new contempt of court charges. The presiding judge then ordered that a plea of not guilty be recorded. The Serbian Radical leader is charged with publishing information that may lead to the identification of 11 protected witnesses

Zoran Rankic was subpoenaed to come to The Hague and testify by the Trial Chamber to explain why he repudiated the statement he gave to the OTP and decided to talk to the defense of the Serbian Radical leader Vojislav Seselj

How did witness Zoran Rankic, former deputy head of the Serbian Radical Party War Staff, decide to repudiate the statements he had given to the OTP and talk to Vojislav Seselj’s defense instead

The remaining two witnesses of the Trial Chamber are expected to be called in the first half of July 2010. The parties will then await the Chamber’s decision on the prosecution motion to admit parts of Mladic’s diaries into evidence and the accused will then be allowed to submit his motion for acquittal at the half-time of the trial. Seselj has distanced himself from agent provocateur Zeljko Raznatovic Arkan

ICTY President Patrick Robinson is of the view that there is “no merit” in the motion filed by the Serbian Radical Party leader to disqualify judges Kwon and Parker from the Trial Chamber hearing Seselj’s contempt of court case but he nevertheless named a panel of judges that will rule on the motion

In his reply to the judges, former Serbian Chetnik Movement volunteer Nenad Jovic explained how his conscience suddenly stirred four years after his first statement to the OTP investigators, prompting him to switch sides and testify in Seselj’s defense

In his cross-examination of Nenad Jovic, called by the Trial Chamber, the prosecution tried to prove that the witness spoke the truth in his statements to the OTP investigators when he blamed ‘Seselj’s men’ for various crimes. The accused Seselj said he believed the witness’s claim that he had given the statements under duress, denying any ties between his volunteers and Arkan’s men. Will there be a defense case at all?

The prosecution has filed a motion seeking leave to tender into evidence parts of Mladic’s diaries in which he claims that the SRS volunteers took part in the destruction of Mostar and the ethnic cleansing of Eastern Bosnia

The Trial Chamber with Judge Antonetti presiding issued an order to the ICTY Registrar to appoint an amicus curiae to investigate whether there exist prima facie sufficient grounds to initiate a proceeding for contempt against “certain members of the prosecution” because they allegedly intimidated witnesses to make them incriminate the Serbian Radicals’ leader

Presiding judge Antonetti brought up a number of unresolved administrative issues and the length of the trial of the Serbian Radicals’ leader. At the same time, Antonetti expressed his hope that a Rule 98bis hearing could be held soon. Does the judge think that the investigation into the alleged intimidation of witnesses by the OTP should include Carla Del Ponte?

The prosecution in the case against the Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj urges the Appeals Chamber to revoke the decision of the Trial Chamber with Judge Antonetti presiding, which ordered an ‘unwarranted, vague and far-reaching investigation’ to be launched against ‘dozens of persons’, based on ‘spurious and incredible’ accusations made by persons with close ties to the political party of the accused

The ICTY Registrar has urged the Appeals Chamber to reverse the Trial Chamber’s decision compelling it to provide 50 percent of the funds to finance Vojislav Seselj’s defense. The Registrar contends that the judges lack jurisdiction to rule on the issue, at least until the accused files a formal motion, and Seselj has steadfastly refused to do so

Following Vojislav Seselj’s allegations that there were complications during his recent heart treatment, the Tribunal’s Registrar submitted to the Trial Chamber the medical report stating that the treatment was ‘successful’. However, due to the nature of the condition, the final assessment will have to wait until later, the report went on to say

The Rule 98 bis hearing will be held in February or March 2011. Seselj will argue why he believed the prosecution failed to prove the allegations in the indictment. Seselj hopes that by that time the Tribunal will ‘tumble down like a stack of cards’ because of the alleged disclosures in the Wikileaks. Seselj’s claims his surgery was not successful however the patient does feel better

Now that the Trial Chamber has the expert report of Slovenian handwriting expert Dorijan Kerzan, there are no more obstacles to the admission of Ratko Mladic’s diaries into evidence. The trial of Vojislav Seselj may now continue

The Serbian Radicals’ leader argues he should be released at the half-time of the trial because the prosecution has failed to call enough evidence to lead to his conviction. Seselj believes that in the case he is acquitted, he should get some compensation for the eight years he has spent in detention ‘groundlessly’

The prosecution opposed Vojislav Seselj’s demand for his acquittal at the half-time of the trial. According to the prosecution, it has called enough evidence to show that Seselj contributed to the implementation of the goals of the joint criminal enterprise by promoting the idea of a Greater Serbia, sending his volunteers to the front, and directly participating in the persecution, deportation and inhumane treatment through hate speech

The prosecution contends that the evidence called so far at Vojislav Seselj’s trial ‘can lead to a conviction’. According to Seselj, dismissing all charges in the indictment is the ‘only decision’ the Trial Chamber can make in order to ‘comply with its conscience, honor and professionalism’. The accused demanded damages in the amount of € 10 million, indicating that he might sue the UN, judges and prosecutors. According to Seselj, they ‘participated in a joint enterprise that yielded such poor results’

The day before yesterday, Serbian Radicals’ leader Vojislav Seselj refused to be examined by a cardiologist, objecting to the doctor’s nationality. In a report to the Trial Chamber, the ICTY Registrar warned ‘it cannot endorse such discrimination by an accused person’

The Trial Chamber will deliver its decision on Vojislav Seselj’s motion for his acquittal at the half-time of the trial on 4 May 2011. Presiding judge Antonetti has in the meantime presented his ‘observations’ on Seselj’s medical condition. According to Antonetti, ‘in the interest of the international justice and these proceedings, the accused and the Trial Chamber’, the accused should be allowed to choose the nationality of the cardiologist who will examine him

The Trial Chamber decides that the prosecution has called enough evidence to allow ‘reasonable judges’ to conclude that all the crimes listed in the indictment against the Serbian Radical leader were committed and that the accused was responsible for instigating those crimes

The Trial Chamber in the Seselj case decided with a majority of votes to proceed with the trial of the Serbian Radicals’ leader on all counts in the indictment. In a partially dissenting opinion, the presiding judge says he would acquit Seselj now, after the prosecution has rested its case, of the charges in six counts in the indictment. Antonetti would continue the trial on the charges of persecution, deportation and forcible transfer

The Appeals Chamber voted with a narrow majority to confirm the decision of Judge Antonetti’s Trial Chamber ordering the Registry to finance Vojislav Seselj’s defense team despite the fact that the accused has refused to provide information about his financial status. Seselj has demanded money for his legal team as a condition for opening the defense case. In a separate opinion, Judge Pocar described the majority decision of the Appeals Chamber as a ‘dangerous precedent’

A public redacted version of the report drafted by an independent ‘amicus curiae’ was disclosed after the Trial Chamber ordered him to investigate if there were ‘sufficient grounds’ to initiate contempt of court proceedings against the former chief prosecutor Del Ponte and ‘members of the prosecution team’ based on the allegations that they intimidated witnesses in a bid to make them testify against the Serbian Radicals’ leader

The Tribunal’s Registrar decided to monitor the communications between the Serbian Radicals’ leader and his legal advisors for a period of 30 days, because there are ‘reasonable grounds to believe that Seselj has abused privileged communications in an attempt to interfere with or intimidate witnesses’ and ‘to facilitate the disclosure of confidential material on his website’

The Trial Chamber has scheduled closing arguments at the trial of the Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj for 5 March 2012. The parties have been given ten hours each for their arguments and will get additional time to respond. Final briefs, not exceeding 200 pages, should be delivered by 5 February 2012

The Serbian Radical Party leader has said he cannot enter a plea on the new version of the third contempt of court indictment, claiming he was 'unable to understand' the document, which has been slightly amended, without the assistance of his legal advisors. He has refused to talk to them on the 'ordinary telephone line which is being monitored'. He would be prepared to talk to them over the 'privileged' line, but the right to privileged communications has been revoked in a recent Registry decision

Prosecutor amicus curiae wants the judges to increase Seselj’s sentence from 18 months to three years in prison for the charges of disclosing the identities of protected witnesses. In his appeal, the prosecutor amicus curiae states that the Serbian Radical leader should serve his sentence ‘consecutively’ rather than ‘concurrently’ with the previous 15-month sentence Seselj received in the trial on the first indictment that contained similar charges

Analyzing the findings of the amicus curiae who concluded after an in-depth investigation that there are no grounds for contempt of court proceedings against the former chief prosecutor and other prosecution staff, the prosecution now wants to have the amicus curiae report admitted into evidence at the main trial of the Serbian Radicals’ leader Vojislav Seselj. The prosecution contends that this would help assess the credibility of the witnesses who ‘changed their minds’ and withdrew their statements against the accused

The Tribunal’s spokeswoman denied the allegations in the Serbian press that Vojislav Seselj’s life was in danger and that he had been refused contact with his legal advisors. As the spokeswoman stated, Seselj is currently under the jurisdiction of the Dutch authorities as he has been transferred to a hospital outside of the UN Detention Unit

The accused Serbian Radicals’ leader contends that his health problems have been caused by external agents working for the ‘dark forces of evil’ to conspire against him. The agents are the American, British and French secret services and a recent addition, presiding judge Antonetti, who had until recently been ‘a darling of the Serbian public’

On the first day of the closing arguments at Vojislav Seselj’s trial, the prosecutors described the contribution of the accused to the joint criminal enterprise in which crimes against Croats and Muslims were committed. The prosecutors spoke of Seselj’s influence as a politician and a ‘quasi-military leader’, his propaganda of hatred, his calls for crimes against non-Serbs and his efforts to recruit volunteers who later committed crimes

Vojislav Seselj was ‘more than just a recruitment officer’ for the JNA, the prosecution claimed in its closing argument today. Seselj did more than just dispatch volunteers to the front; in effect, he appointed and promoted the commanders of those units and influenced the situation on the ground, the prosecutors argued

The prosecutors contend that they have proven the responsibility of the Serbian Radicals’ leader for ‘cruel crimes’ against civilians in Croatia, Vojvodina and BH. The crimes include the murder of children and newborn babies, pregnant women, the elderly and the sick, carving crosses into the bodies of Muslims, raping women and sadistic sexual abuse of men. As there are no mitigating circumstances, the prosecution has asked for the only adequate sentence: 28 years in prison

The Tribunal’s spokesperson Nerma Jelacic confirmed that the Serbian Radicals’ leader had been transferred to a civilian medical facility. The defense’s closing arguments, scheduled to begin on Monday, were postponed until next Wednesday

The Trial Chamber has ordered the Registrar to appoint a new medical expert team to examine the accused Serbian Radical Party leader and determine ‘if the health of the accused is consistent with the detention regime in the UN Detention Unit’

The Serbian Radical Party leader denied responsibility for the crimes alleged in the indictment. Seselj shifted the blame for the murder of Muslims in Zvornik on ‘Arkan’s men’. The accused also blamed the killing of Croats at Ovcara on the JNA intelligence chief Aleksandar Vasiljevic, the Croatian secret service and the director of the Vukovar Hospital Vesna Bosanac

As the Serbian Radicals’ leader continued his closing argument, he repeated several times that ‘I will not renounce my Chetnik vojvodas’. He claimed, however, that the facts clearly show he had nothing to do with the vojvodas mentioned in the indictment and did not sent any of his volunteers to them. He visited them on rare occasions, but that was the extent of his relationship with them

The Serbian Radical Party leader compared his war-mongering speeches with the French national anthem and declared he had ‘triumphed’ against the Tribunal. Seselj claimed he couldn’t ‘care less’ if he is convicted or not, explaining that the only adequate sentence for him was life imprisonment. The trial has ended and the parties will now await the judgment

A three member medical team set up on the orders of the Trial Chamber concluded that the medical facilities at the UN Detention Unit were ‘compatible’ with Vojislav Seselj’s health condition. The health care available to the accused in the Detention Unit is no different from the medical care offered to any other patient with the heart condition outside the Detention Unit

Because of the Serbian Radical Party leader’s propensity to publish confidential documents in books and on his website, the prosecution wants to be released from the obligation to disclose statements of three protected witnesses who testified about the crimes committed by Seselj’s men in Vukovar, Brcko and another municipality in BH

The Serbian Radical Party leader’s legal team has filed a motion seeking to disqualify judges Arlette Ramaroson, Mehmet Guney and Andresia Vaz from the Appeals Chamber hearing Seselj's third contempt of court case. Seselj contends that the judges made a ‘scandalous decision’ to invalidate his notice of appeal because he had drastically exceeded the word limit

The Tribunal has announced that on 30 October 2013, the Serbian Radical Party leader will receive the judgment following his trial for crimes against non-Serbs in Croatia, Vojvodina and BH. The prosecution has called for 28 years in prison while Seselj claimed he was innocent

With a majority of votes, the judges granted the motion filed by the Serbian Radicals’ leader to disqualify the Danish whistle-blowing judge. Will there be a judgment in the Seselj case?

The prosecution has filed a motion for a reconsideration of the decision to disqualify Judge Harhoff citing ‘fundamental errors of reasoning’. On the other hand, judges Antonetti and Lattanzi sought ‘clarification’ whether the report of the Trial Chamber’s presiding judge and the statement of the Danish judge had been taken into consideration when the decision was made. The disqualified judge also seeks ‘clarification’. The Tribunal’s vice-president has stayed the appointment of a new judge pending Antonetti’s and Lattanzi’s consultations with Seselj as to whether to “rehear the case or continue the proceedings”

Judge Antonetti has decided to unseal a memorandum he sent to President Meron on 8 July 2013 in his capacity as the presiding judge in the Trial Chamber hearing the Seselj case. In the memorandum, Judge Antonetti strongly opposes the motion to disqualify Judge Harhoff and denies the allegations of the appearance of bias on Judge Harhoff’s part

In a memorandum addressed to Presiding Judge Antonetti, Judge Harhoff dismissed Seselj’s accusations of ‘bias’. Harhoff explained why and under what circumstances he expressed his concerns over the change in the Tribunal’s course in a letter to his Danish friends and colleagues. Judge Antonetti forwarded the memorandum to Vice-President Agius

The Tribunal’s President dismissed as ‘moot’ Vojislav Seselj’s appeal over the monitoring of his privileged communications. The ICTY Registry had issued a decision to stop monitoring his communications eight days before the accused filed the appeal

As the special Panel of judges hasn’t yet ruled on the prosecution’s motion for the reconsideration of the decision to disqualify Judge Harhoff, and as Judge Antonetti has yet to receive the clarifications from the Panel he has demanded, Vojislav Seselj’s judgment will be postponed until further notice. The judgment was initially supposed to be rendered on 30 October 2013

In late August 2013, Judge Harhoff was disqualified by a chamber of judges, with a two-to-one split vote. Now a panel of judges has denied the prosecution’s motion for the reconsideration of that decision, again with the same result. A panel also denied requests for clarification as to why the opinions and statements of the judges with an interest in the matter were not taken into account. According to its decision, the Special Chamber found it was under no obligation to take into account the opinions of witnesses or indeed the statements made by the accused

With the appointment of Senegalese judge Mandiaye Niang, the Trial Chamber in the case of Vojislav Seselj has finally been completed. For the past two months, Seselj’s Trial Chamber was incomplete because of the disqualification of Danish judge Frederik Harhoff. Now, the Trial Chamber can decide on the further course of the Seselj case

The Trial Chamber has invited the accused Serbian Radical Party leader and the prosecution to submit their comments about the manner in which the proceedings are to continue. Seselj’s trial has been suspended temporarily because of the disqualification of one of the judges, who was replaced by a new judge. Judge Antonetti wants the parties to consider whether contempt of court proceedings should be instituted against those who leaked to the press the private letter written by the disqualified judge Harhoff

For the umpteenth time, the Serbian Radical Party leader has filed a motion seeking his ‘urgent and prompt’ release and to be refunded for damages he suffered. It may seem hopeless, but then again, he had kept asking for the disqualification of judges from his Trial Chamber just as many times, and at one point it worked

The prosecution proposes that Vojislav Seselj’s trial continue from the point where it was suspended: just as the judgment was about to be rendered. The trial should resume as soon as possible, or rather, as soon as the new judge in the Trial Chamber is familiarized with the case. The prosecution has noted that there are precedents for new judges joining the trials that are already underway: the trials of Slobodan Milosevic and Momcilo Krajisnik

The Trial Chamber has decided that the trial of the Serbian Radical Party leader should continue at the point where it stopped: the parties’ closing arguments, but not before the new judge Niang acquaints himself with the case. This will take at least six months

The prosecution has dismissed the claims of the Serbian Radical Party leader about his unreasonably long detention and ‘unnecessary delays’ in his trial listing in detail Seselj’s own responsibility for the ‘slow pace’ of the trial. Also, the prosecution has recalled that Seselj needed only to ask for provisional release and he would not have spent a good part of the previous 11 years in detention

Theodor Meron, the Tribunal’s President, referred the decision on the motion of the Serbian Radical leader to terminate proceedings against him to his deputy, Carmel Agius. Judge Agius referred the issue to the Appeals Chamber, which consists of five judges. When Seselj filed a motion for the disqualification of Judge Harhoff, the various instances engaged in a similar pass-the-buck exercise

The Appeals Chamber today denied Vojislav Seselj’s motion in which he called for the proceedings against him to be terminated and for his urgent release. Alternatively, he demanded a re-trial. Judge Afande dissented from the majority decision

Last week, the Trial Chamber invited the prosecution and Vojislav Seselj to answer the question whether the accused Serbian Radical Party leader should be granted provisional release pending the judgment in his case. Will Seselj ask Aleksandar Vucic’s government to provide guarantees?

In his response to the Trial Chamber’s invitation to state whether he should be granted provisional release pending his judgment in his case (Seselj has not petitioned the judges to release him), the Serbian Radical Party leader forewarned the judges: if he is granted provisional release he will not comply the rules. He will not report regularly to the police, he will not wear "collars, bracelets or anklets". Seselj also made it clear that he would appear in the media and at public rallies where he would ‘criticize the Tribunal in The Hague as an illegal international court’

According to the prosecution, there are no arguments to support Vojislav Seselj’s provisional release. However, the prosecution wouldn’t object the decision if the conditions were set to ensure that during his stay in Serbia the accused wouldn’t pose a risk to victims and witnesses. The accused should also return to The Tribunal if and when ordered to do so, the prosecution noted

The judges have stipulated stringent conditions for Vojislav Seselj's provisional release, and have asked the Serbian Government to state within seven days if they can guarantee compliance

Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj demands compensation from the Tribunal for financial and non-financial damage caused by the 135 months of ‘groundless detention’. Seselj wants 12 million euros

After the Trial Chamber received the response of the government of the Republic of Serbia with regard to the guarantees for Vojislav Seselj’s provisional release, it invited the accused to state in writing his opinion on the conditions for his provisional release in Serbia pending the trial judgment. Seselj was urged to do that despite the fact that basically he had already rejected those conditions

The Serbian Radical Party leader has told the Tribunal’s officials that he does not intend to respond to the Trial Chamber’s invitation to state whether he would be willing to accept the terms of provisional release. He has already said everything he has to say in one of his last submissions, Seselj noted: that he will not comply with any of the terms, except for not leaving the territory of the Republic of Serbia

After the accused Vojislav Seselj made it perfectly clear that he didn’t intend to made a written undertaking that he would comply with the Tribunal’s conditions, the Trial Chamber terminated the procedure for his provisional release pending the judgment for crimes against humanity in Croatia, Vojvodina and Bosnia and Herzegovina

The prosecution recalls that the Serbian Radical Party leader has been lawfully detained, in line with the Tribunal's rules, stressing that he 'has never even tried' to comply with the conditions of provisional release. The accused has in fact rejected the judges' initiative to obtain provisional release for him. In the past 11 years the accused has served 54 months in prison for contempt of court. Bearing all that in mind, the prosecution holds that Seselj's request for 12 million euros as compensation for his groundless detention should be rejected as 'meritless'

After Seselj's health deteriorated, the judges have asked the Serbian and Dutch authorities to ensure conditions for Vojislav Seselj’s provisional release. Seselj has been charged with crimes against humanity in Croatia, Vojvodina and Bosnia and Herzegovina

Voting two to one, the Trial Chamber has decided to provisionally release the accused Vojislav Seselj without compelling him to comply with any of the conditions he had originally had to meet

Has Vojislav Seselj been provisionally released for ‘humanitarian reasons’ pending his trial judgment? Or has Seselj actually forced the Tribunal to expel him from the Detention Unit? Is the miscarriage of the 10 years long painful search for the truth and justice the acceptable price for the punishment of a ‘disloyal judge’?

Last week the Senegalese judge opposed the decision to provisionally release Vojislav Seselj. In the separate opinion Judge Niang states that the accused should have made a commitment that he would comply with the conditions for provisional release. In Judge Niang’s opinion, the Tribunal should have secured Seselj’s return to The Hague when it becomes necessary

Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz files a motion petitioning the Trial Chamber to revoke its decision to provisionally release Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj

According to the Serbian Radical Party leader, when the prosecution demanded that Seselj return to The Hague, it in fact ‘conveyed the position of Croatia and the European Union, who have been Seselj’s political opponents for decades’. Seselj has therefore called for ‘rigorous disciplinary measures’ against the chief prosecutor. The prosecutor replied that the motion to suspend the provisional release was submitted after the accused had said he would not return voluntarily to The Hague. Furthermore, Seselj's recent statements were offensive to the victims and threatened all those who chose to cooperate with the OTP, the prosecutor noted

The Trial Chamber has rejected the prosecution’s motion to revoke the decision from November 2014 granting Vojislav Seselj provisional release. Seselj had not asked to be provisionally released. The Trial Chamber has also denied the motion in which the accused called for ‘rigorous disciplinary measures’ against the chief prosecutor because of his alleged ‘unacceptable conduct’

The prosecution has filed an appeal against the Trial Chamber’s decision to dismiss its initial motion for Vojislav Seselj's return to the detention unit. The prosecution alleges Seselj has breached the ‘minimal conditions’ for the provisional release. In his public statements Seselj has vowed he will never return voluntarily to The Hague and threatened victims and witnesses who have testified at his trial

Vojislav Seselj believes that the chief prosecutor is in collusion with his enemies at home and abroad. That is in fact the real reason why Brammertz contested the Trial Chamber’s decision for Seselj’s provisional release pending judgment; there were no legal grounds for the opposition

The Appeals Chamber has ordered Judge Antonetti's Trial Chamber to ‘immediately revoke’ its decision on Vojislav Seselj’s provisional release and to order the accused to return to the detention unit. The reason behind the decision is Seselj’s violation of the conditions of his provisional release. In his public appearances, Seselj has stated that he will not voluntarily return to The Hague

Before taking their decision on the Appeals Chamber’s order to bring Vojislav Seselj back to The Hague ‘immediately’, the judges in the Trial Chamber want the Serb medical doctors to provide them with the latest reports on the medical treatment of the accused

In the two weeks since the appellate judges ordered the Trial Chamber to 'immediately' suspend Seselj's provisional release, the Trial Chamber has yet to issue the decision to that effect. The prosecution has turned to the Appeals Chamber again, asking it to give the trial judges 24 hours to suspend Seselj's provisional release

On 30 March 2015, the Appeals Chamber ordered Judge Antonetti’s Trial Chamber to ‘immediately’ order Seselj to return to the Tribunal’s detention unit in The Hague. The prosecution then filed a motion asking the appellate judges to speed up the procedure by instructing the Trial Chamber to issue its order ‘within 24 hours’ instead of ‘immediately’. Now the Appeals Chamber has called Seselj to respond to the prosecution’s motion within 72 hours

Judge Antonetti's Trial Chamber says it lacks jurisdiction to consider Vojislav Seselj’s motion in which he calls for ‘rigorous disciplinary measures’ against chief prosecutor Brammertz. The judges want Seselj to refrain from such requests in the future, as they, in the Trial Chamber’s view, were an ‘abuse of due process’. The Trial Chamber ‘will not tolerate it’, the judges insist

At a public hearing on Serbia's failure to execute the warrants for the arrest of three Serbian Radical Party officials – Petar Jojic, Jovo Ostojic and Vjerica Radeta – the judges expressed their ‘serious concern’ over Serbia’s lack of cooperation with the Tribunal. The judges noted that Serbia’s continuous assurances that it was willing to comply with its obligations were ‘pointless’ as long as they were not followed by actions

On 31 March 2016, The Trial Chamber will render its judgment in the case against the Serbian Radical Party leader for 31 March 2016. The judges have ordered the Serbian authorities to take all necessary measures to ensure Seselj’s appearance at the Tribunal

Serbia’s representative has informed the Trial Chamber that he is not authorized to share with the judges the confidential details related to the serious problems caused by the arrest warrant for the ‘three members of the Serbian Radical Party’ who have been charged with contempt of court.

The Trial Chamber has decided not to order the Serb authorities to take all necessary measures to ensure the accused is back in The Hague to hear his verdict. If Seselj is willing to follow the proceedings via video link, the Trial Chamber will be happy to organize it

Despite the fact that the Tribunal’s Statute doesn’t allow trials in the absence of the accused, on Thursday, Judge Antonetti’s Trial Chamber will render its judgment in the case against Vojislav Seselj in his absence.

The majority of the judges in the Trial Chamber, French judge Antonetti and Judge Niang from Senegal, have acquitted Vojislav Seselj of all counts in the indictment charging him with crimes against humanity in Croatia, Vojvodina and Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to the judges, the prosecution had not done its job properly. Italian judge Lattanzi, the third member of the Trial Chamber, attached a strongly-worded dissenting opinion

Summary

A number of factual and legal findings made by the majority of judges in the Trial Chamber, which acquitted Vojislav Seselj today, mark a departure from the Tribunal’s established jurisprudence, chief prosecutor Brammertz said after the verdict. We are considering the grounds for appeal against the judgment, Brammertz said

The majority of the judges in the Trial Chamber, French judge Antonetti and Judge Niang from Senegal, have acquitted Vojislav Seselj of all counts in the indictment charging him with crimes against humanity in Croatia, Vojvodina and Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to the judges, the prosecution had not done its job properly. Italian judge Lattanzi, the third member of the Trial Chamber, attached a strongly-worded dissenting opinion

In the notice of appeal against the acquittal of the Serbian Radical Party leader, the prosecution urges the Appeals Chamber to reverse the Trial Chamber’s ‘vitiated’ judgment. The prosecution calls on the appellate judges to find the accused guilty and to impose an adequate sentence or, alternatively, to order a re-trial

President of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals Judge Meron apointed the Appeals Chamber which will deal with the prosecution's appeal the acquittal of the Serbian Radical Party leader. Presided by US Judge Meron the chamber will include judges from Great Britain, Portugal, Kenya and Cameroon

According to an order issued by the pre-appellate judge Theodor Meron, Vojislav Seselj will have 80 days from the date he receives the Serbian version of his judgment to read it and re-spond to the prosecution's appellate brief

In the appellate brief, the prosecution asks the Appeals Chamber to reverse the ‘vitiated’ first-instance judgment in the Vojislav Seselj case, and to convict him of war crimes and crimes against humanity. According to the prosecution, 28 years in prison would be an appropriate sentence. Alternatively, the prosecution wants the Serbian Radical Party leader to be retried

The Trial Chamber hearing the case against the three Serbian Radical Party members who have been indicted for contempt of court has informed the Tribunal’s President that Serbia continues pursuing its policy of non-compliance, thus obstructing the administration of justice

At a hearing before the Appeals Chamber, the prosecution argued that Vojislav Seselj’s acquittal teemed with errors in fact and law; taken cumulatively, the errors invalidated the judgment as a whole

Only two and a half months after hearing the appeal of the Prosecution against the acquittal of Vojislav Šešelj, the MICT Appeals Chamber will deliver the final verdict to the leader of Serbian radicals on 11 April 2018

The Appeals Chamber of the Mechanism for the International Criminal Tribunals reversed the acquittal of Serbian radicals' leader Vojislav Šešelj, entered convictions under three counts of the indictment for persecution on political, racial and religious grounds, and sentenced him to 10 years of imprisonment