Belgrade Higher Court

The trial of Nezir Mehmetaj, a Kosovo Albanian accused of participation in war crimes against civilians in the village of Rudice in the Klina municipality in June and July 1999, opened in Belgrade Higher Court on Thursday.

Mehmetaj is accused of involvement in killing seven people and burning and looting houses in Rudice as a member of the Kosovo Liberation Army.

Judge Liu Daqun of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague issued a ruling on Friday calling on the president of the court to "notify the [UN] Security Council of Serbia's failure to comply with its obligations" for failing to arrest wanted Serbian Radical Party politicians Petar Jojic and Vjerica Radeta.

The International Commission on Missing Persons told BIRN on Tuesday that experts have confirmed the identities of two people whose remains were found in a mass grave in the village of Kizevak in southern Serbia.

The trial of Rajko Kusic, wartime commander of Bosnian Serb Army's Rogatica Brigade, opened in Belgrade Higher Court on Friday with the defendant entering a not-guilty plea.

On April 5 this year at Belgrade Higher Court, the trial will start for an attempted murder in a village near Zagreb in Croatia in June 2010.

Both the suspect and the victim, Milos Simovic and Sretko Kalinic, are Serbian citizens and former members of a notorious criminal gang.

The trial of Dragan Dopudja, a former member of the 15th Bihac Brigade of the Bosnian Serb Army who is accused of involvement in the murders of at least ten Bosniak civilians in the village of Hrgar near Bihac in the summer of 1992, opened at Belgrade Higher Court on Tuesday.

The Appeals Court in Belgrade has quashed the verdict convicting Husein Mujanovic, the commander of a military prison in Hrasnica near Sarajevo during the Bosnian war, of the abuse of Bosnian Serb inmates in 1992, and ordered a retrial.

Mujanovic had been sentenced to ten years in prison in July 2020.

Belgrade Appeals Court has confirmed the verdict finding former Bosnian Serb ex-soldier Zeljko Maricic guilty of war crimes against civilians in the Kljuc municipality at the end of May 1992 and jailing him for two years.

Belgrade Higher Court on Tuesday found Bosnian Serb ex-fighter Zeljko Budimir guilty after a retrial of beating up a Bosnian civilian and stealing his money in the village of Rejzovici in the Kljuc municipality in November 1992.

But the court acquitted Budimir of participating in the murders of the wife and mother-in-law of the Bosniak man, whose name was Ale Strkonjic.

Belgrade Higher Court on Monday separated the case against Dragomir Parovic, who is accused of involvement in killing 1,313 Bosniak civilians at a farm in Kravica near Srebrenica in July 1995, from the case against his seven co-defendants as he is no longer able to participate in the trial.