Interpol issues "red notices" for three SRS party officials

The Hague Tribunal (ICTY) has announced that Interpol has issued red notices "in relation to pending arrest warrants in the Jojic et al. contempt case."

The tribunal said in a statement that Interpol informed them about this on March 24, and that the red notices seek the location and arrest of Petar Jojic, Jovo Ostojic and Vjerica Radeta - three officials of the opposition Serb Radical Party (SRS).

Interpol acted on the request of ICTY's Registry, following an order of Trial Chamber I, with the red notices effective as of March 16, 2017.

The tribunal charged Jojic, Ostojic, and Radeta with contempt of court for allegedly having threatened, intimidated, offered bribes to, or otherwise interfered with two witnesses in the trial against SRS Vojislav Seselj and a related contempt case against him, the statement said, and added:

"Since January 19, 2015, arrest...