Legal procedure

The association Good Garden ("Dobra basta") has won two awards at the Smart Academy pitching forum on April 22, within Regional Forum of Social Innovations.

The prosecutor failed to prove factual guilt of Citizens' Initiative SDP leader Oliver Ivanovic, Ivanovic's lawyer Nebojsa Vlajic said on Thursday.

He was presenting the closing arguments of the defense in the trial of Ivanovic and four other Serbs before the Municipal Court in Kosovska Mitrovica.

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A court has postponed to June 17 the trial of suspected Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants who attacked a Turkish gendarmerie post in the Central Anatolian province of Ni?de, after the lawyers of the defendants withdrew from the trial on March 5.

The defendants' lawyers said they did not want to plead and left the court room.

Accused drug lord starts presenting his defense

BELGRADE -- Darko Saric on Wednesday told the Special Court for Organized Crime in Belgrade that he did not commit any of the crimes cited in the indictment against him.

An appeals court in Thessaloniki on Wednesday rejected a request by the city?s former mayor, Vassilis Papageorgopoulos, who is serving a prison term for embezzlement, to be released from jail until the Supreme Court hears his appeal against his sentence.

A suspect of raping a dog was acquitted of all charges Dec. 30 in a trial that drew much attention after its judge abased the animal who was the victim of the violence, calling her "a mongrel," prompting a social media campaign.

Turkey’s top court has dismissed two separate appeals from the main opposition party concerning the contested local election result in the capital Ankara, citing lack of jurisdiction.

The trial of more than 60 people, including 16 Golden Dawn MPs, accused of being part of a criminal organization is due to begin by early November, sources have told Kathimerini.