Zagreb court

The second annual Pride Ride, a protest by cyclists in support of LGBT rights, was held in Zagreb on Saturday.

The cycle rally began in a park in the Tresnjevka district in the western part of the city and moved through the streets of Zagreb before returning to the park.

After a Zagreb court ruled on Tuesday that that former owner of the indebted food giant Agrokor, Ivica Todoric, can be released after paying one million euros in bail, Todoric announced on Wednesday that he would run for elections, win power and turn Croatia in the right direction.

Croatian jurist and ex-President Ivo Josipovic told BIRN that a Zagreb court’s decision to reduce the prison sentence given to former Croatian Defence Council officer Marko Radic does not reflect the gravity of his crime.

A Zagreb court reduced former Croatian Defence Council officer Marko Radic’s sentence for crimes against humanity because the Croatian legal system does not recognise the concept of a ‘joint criminal enterprise’.

For almost a year, the Serbian war crimes prosecution has not replied to the Croatian state attorney’s inquiry about witnesses’ whereabouts, while Interpol’s Belgrade office has not responded to inquiries from a Zagreb court.

A Zagreb court overturned the 1945 verdict that convicted academic Filip Lukas of supporting Nazi occupation forces because of his connections with Croatia’s WWII-era fascist government

A well-known Croatian producer of salami and other meat products, Georg ‘Djuro’ Gavrilovic, will go on trial at a Zagreb court in May for alleged war profiteering.

The trial of Milan Martic, the leader of rebel Croatian Serbs during wartime, and Milan Celeketic, his military chief-of-staff, started in their absence at a Zagreb court.

A Zagreb court upheld the convictions of five Croatian military policemen for torturing and sexually abusing Serb prisoners of war and civilians, with the judge calling the men “an embarrassment”.

A Zagreb court again acquitted two former special policemen following a retrial for war crimes committed in the village of Grubori after Croatia’s operation ‘Storm’ in August 1995.