Hague to decide on Šešelj request in May

The Hague Tribunal will announce its decision reagrding Vojislav Šešelj's request to be set free on May 4.

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The Hague Tribunal will announce its decision reagrding Vojislav Seselj's request to be set free on May 4. This will come after the prosecution has presented all evidence in its case. Hague to decide on Seselj request in May The leader of the Serb Radical Party (SRS) has been charged with war crimes by The Hague-based UN court. The court process against him there has been ongoing for the past eight years - since he voluntarily surrendered in early 2003. Seselj asked the court to set him free and compensate him with EUR 10mn "for spending more than eight years incarcerated for no reason and based on no legal grounds". Seselj filed his request in early March, and said the prosecution "failed to prove a single accusation against him". He has been charged with committing war crimes in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and in Vojvodina in northern Serbia. The crimes were allegedly committed from 1991 until 1993. The prosecutors responded by saying that they provided a sufficient amount of evidence to prove Seselj's guilt on all counts of the indictment, including that which accuses him of employing hate-speech to directly commit crimes against non-Serbs in Vukovar and the village of Hrtkovci in Vojvodina. According to the tribunal's rules, judges can either rule that the prosecution had submitted enough evidence on all counts, or throw out the whole indictment or some of its parts for lack of evidence. Should the judges in the case decide not to acquit Seselj on May 4, the trial will continue with the defense presenting its evidence to the court. Vojislav Seselj (file)

Hague to decide on Šešelj request in May

The leader of the Serb Radical Party (SRS) has been charged with war crimes by The Hague-based UN court.

The court process against him there has been ongoing for the past eight years - since he voluntarily surrendered in early 2003.

Šešelj asked the court to set him free and compensate him with EUR 10mn "for spending more than eight years incarcerated for no reason and based on no legal grounds".

Šešelj filed his request in early March, and said the prosecution "failed to prove a single accusation against him".

He has been charged with committing war crimes in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and in Vojvodina in northern Serbia. The crimes were allegedly committed from 1991 until 1993.

The prosecutors responded by saying that they provided a sufficient amount of evidence to prove Šešelj's guilt on all counts of the indictment, including that which accuses him of employing hate-speech to directly commit crimes against non-Serbs in Vukovar and the village of Hrtkovci in Vojvodina.

According to the tribunal's rules, judges can either rule that the prosecution had submitted enough evidence on all counts, or throw out the whole indictment or some of its parts for lack of evidence.

Should the judges in the case decide not to acquit Šešelj on May 4, the trial will continue with the defense presenting its evidence to the court.

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