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Follow the latest updates from our reporters in The Hague and Bosnia as the UN's war crimes tribunal delivers its appeal verdict in the retrial of former Serbian State Security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic.

Deputy chief secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Stanimir Stanev, admitted to the protection of Ministry of Internal Affairs officials for the crossing of migrants at the border in front of Nova TV.

They said they are police officers

Previously, the protests claimed the lives of 12 civilians and one policeman.

According to Reuters, the number of victims in the five-day anti-government protests is rising, while at least three more police officers were injured from firearms.

At the retrial of former Serbian security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, a witness said he and other Croat civilians were used as human shields during an attack on a village in 1991.

The retrial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, two former leaders of the Serbian State Security Service, SDB, for crimes in Croatia and Bosnia continues on Tuesday.

As the retrial of former security chiefs Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic began in The Hague, prosecutors said they were “key participants” in a joint criminal enterprise to dominate parts of Croatia and Bosnia.

A United Nations court on May 22 ordered two former Serbian state security officials to be held in jail until their retrial starts next month.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said it has asked Serbia's Ministry of Internal Affairs to return Jovica Stanisic, 66, and his deputy, Franko Simatovic, 67, to the UN Detention Unit in The Hague by May 30.

Police faced-off with prison guards calling for better labor conditions who set up barricades at the Fleury-Merogis jail outside Paris. Tires were set on fire and smoke grenades were also reportedly used at the scene.

Hosni Mubarak, who was overthrown as president of Egypt in an uprising in 2011, will be released from detention in a military hospital, the public prosecutor ruled on March 13, his lawyers and judicial sources said.

"He will go to his home in Heliopolis," Mubarak's lawyer Farid El Deeb said, adding the ageing former president would likely be released on March 14 or soon after.