(ANSA-AFP) - THE HAGUE, MAY 31 - A UN court sentenced two of
late Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic's spy chiefs to 15
years in jail on appeal Wednesday in the last major Hague war
crimes trial from the 1990s Bosnian conflict. Judges rejected
appeals by former state security service boss Jovica Stanisic
and his deputy Franko Simatovic against their 2021 convictions,
and added three years to their original sentences of 12 years.
Stanisic, 72, and Simatovic, 73, were convicted of backing a
Serb death squad that terrorised the Bosnian town of Bosanski
Samac in 1992 with killings, rapes and looting. The pair had
challenged their convictions for the war crime of murder and the
crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, forcible
transfer and deportation, and appealed the sentence. Prosecutors
had appealed against their acquittal on several other charges,
and asked for a longer sentence from the court, known as the
International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (MICT).
"The appeals chamber dismisses the appeals by (Jovica) Stanisic
and (Franko) Simatovic... and imposes a sentence of 15 years" on
each, head appeals judge Graciela Gatti Santana said. The case
has been running for two decades, making it the longest and the
last at the UN tribunal dealing with crimes from the wars that
tore apart Yugoslavia after the fall of communism. (ANSA-AFP).
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Milosevic spymasters handed longer jail terms
In final UN court verdict