Franko Simatović

The trial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, also known as Frenki, before the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, is due to begin on June 13, the Trial Chamber has announced.

The Hague Tribunal (ICTY) on Tuesday granted Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic provisional release pending the beginning of their retrial in The Hague.

The decision neither specifies a date nor a deadline for their return, the chairman of Serbia's national council for cooperation with the ICTY, Rasim Ljajic, told Tanjug.

Former Serbian state security officers Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, who will be retried in The Hague for war crimes in Bosnia and Croatia, are to be temporarily released.

Former top officials of Serbia's state security (DB) Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic have pleaded not guilty at the start of their retrial.

The process is taking place before the Hague Tribunal (ICZY) after the Appeals Chamber ordered a retrial on all counts of the indictment, annulling the first-degree ruling that acquitted both the accused.

Former Serbian state security officers Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic pleaded not guilty at the UN court in The Hague at their retrial for war crimes in Bosnia and Croatia.

Chief Hague Prosecutor Serge Brammertz says he is satisfied with the decision to repeat the trial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic.

Victims’ groups and rights campaigners in Bosnia and Croatia praised the UN war crimes court’s decision to order a retrial for former Serbian state security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic.

Former Serbian state security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic will be retried at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

The retrial will include all counts of the indictment, the ICTY (Hague Tribunal) Appeals Chamber decided on Tuesday, quashing a first-instance decision to acquit the two.

The Hague Tribunal overturned the acquittal of former Serbian security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, ordering them to be retried for controlling the most notorious combat units in the Balkan wars.

In an appeal hearing on Monday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the prosecution asked for a reversal of the initial verdict on former state security officials Stanisic and Simatovic which found them not guilty of war crimes in Bosnia and Croatia during the 1990s.