Appeals Court

The Karla storm barrier, because of which water and in recent weeks tons of fish have been flowing into the Pagasitikos Gulf, could not be closed, according to a multi-page conclusion of the Volos Prosecutor’s Office, which had ordered and completed a preliminary investigation as early as last February.

With the risk of the statute of limitations for any responsibility linked to the deadly fire in 2018 in Mati in East Attica being real and imminent, the justice system is expediting judicial procedures so that those who were brought to trial for the tragedy do not go completely unpunished. 

The London High Court rejected a petition to suspend British arms exports to Israel, the lawyers for the plaintiffs said on Tuesday.

A coalition of legal advocacy groups had asked the High Court in January to expedite a judicial review of the U.K. government's decision to keep selling military parts and arms to Israel.

The gap in the security of the courthouse in Thessaloniki where a parcel bomb sent to a senior judge was found and defused on Monday was "quite serious," Justice Minister Giorgos Floridis said on Tuesday.

Montenegrin investigative journalist Jovo Martinovic (left) arriving at court in Podgorica. Photo: BIRN/Samir Kajosevic

The Appeals Court delivered its verdict after the Montenegrin Supreme Court last June ordered a second retrial for Martinovic.

They accuse him of using a Facebook account to issue a series of posts promoting the Islamic State and its late leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and calling for a holy war in the Middle East and Africa.

El Salih was released on June 11 after an Appeals Court rejected a prosecution request to keep him in custody until trial.

In December last year, Albania's High Court overturned a decision by the country's Appeals Court which, five years earlier, had freed a notorious underworld figure called Lulzim Berisha.

Montenegrin investigative journalist Jovo Martinovic (centre) going to court in Podgorica. Photo: BIRN/Samir Kajosevic

"The decision has been made and at the beginning of next week, [the case] will be returned to the lower court," the Supreme Court told daily newspaper Vijesti.

Belgrade Higher Court on Monday sentenced Husein Mujanovic, the commander of a military prison in Hrasnica near Sarajevo during the Bosnian war, to ten years of prison for the abuse of Bosnian Serb inmates in 1992.

A Kosovo women's rights NGO has said that judicial institutions are not treating femicide with due seriousness but are instead often reducing jail sentences from life imprisonment to tens of years.