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Kosovo's Supreme Court on Thursday made public its ruling confirming the sentencing of Goran Stanisic to 15 years' imprisonment for war crimes against ethnic Albanian civilians in the town of Lipjan/Lipljan during the Kosovo war in 1999.

The Supreme Court ruling upheld the previous Court of Appeals verdict convicting Serb wartime reservist policeman Stanisic.

Based on the court's verdict, Gali will spend 8 years in prison instead of 10.

At least three new people have so far been placed in the the frame of criminal responsibility for last week's tragic train collision in Tempe ahead of the convening of the Plenary of the Court of Appeals, which is expected to upgrade the investigations by assigning to two appellants-investigators.

The Appeals Court in Belgrade announced on Thursday that it has handed down a second-instance verdict sentencing Husein Mujanovic to four-and-a-half years in prison for abusing Serbs who were held at a Bosnian Army military prison in Hrasnica near Sarajevo during 1992.

As intelligent as she is, Happy the elephant doesn't meet the definition of a "person" and is therefore not being illegally confined in the Bronx Zoo, New York's top court ruled on June 14 in a closely watched case for animal rights.

A New York appeals court upheld Harvey Weinstein's rape conviction and 23-year prison sentence on June 2, rejecting the movie mogul's claims that the judge at his landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced him by allowing women to testify about allegations that weren't part of the criminal case.

Sali Berisha appeared to be back in charge of Albania's main centre-right opposition Democratic Party after nine years, after he won 93 per cent of votes cast by around 40,000 party members on Sunday.

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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.

Kosovo's Supreme Court announced on Wednesday that it has upheld the verdict convicting Serb fighter Zoran Djokic of war crimes against ethnic Albanian civilians in Peja/Pec in March and April 1999.

In February last year, Pristina Basic Court found Djokic guilty and sentenced him to 12 years in prison. The verdict was upheld by the Court of Appeals in November.