Šešelj demands "urgent release, and compensation"

Vojislav Šešelj has filed a motion before the Hague Tribunal (ICTY) to be acquitted and paid a EUR 12 million compensation.

Izvor: Tanjug

Thursday, 28.11.2013.

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THE HAGUE Vojislav Seselj has filed a motion before the Hague Tribunal (ICTY) to be acquitted and paid a EUR 12 million compensation. The leader of the Serb Radical Party (SNS) is seeking damages for being in the UN detention unit in Scheveningen far almost 11 full years now without a verdict ruled in his war crimes case. Seselj demands "urgent release, and compensation" Seselj turned himself in to the court in early 2003, shortly after he was indicted. The trial started in November, 2007. In the motion filed on Wednesday, Seselj’s defense demanded from the ICTY to end his trial ends and release Seselj "urgently and immediately." The motion says it is clear that Seselj’s trial "cannot be continued in a fair manner for a flagrant violation of the principle of expediency, and lists numerous examples of obvious violations of fundamental human rights and procedural rights of the defendant." Seselj has suffered "intangible damages that cannot be compensated only by a statement confirming that his rights were violated, but necessitate a compensation payment to the amount of EUR 12 million," the motion said. Seselj’s defense said that all the elements of the case had effectively been annulled as one of the judges in his trial, Frederick Harhoff, was disqualified for demonstrating an unacceptable appearance of bias in favour of conviction. An ICTY chamber made the decision to disqualify the Danish judge from the bench in his case at the end of August, following Seselj’s defense motion for that to be done based on a controversial letter in which the judge complains about some of the international court’s rulings. The defendant believes that, from a legal point of view, Judge Mandiaye Niang, who replaced Harhoff as the third judge in the Seselj trial, "cannot be automatically fitted in in the trial." Seselj is seen in the ICTY courtroom (FoNet, file) Tanjug

Šešelj demands "urgent release, and compensation"

Šešelj turned himself in to the court in early 2003, shortly after he was indicted. The trial started in November, 2007.

In the motion filed on Wednesday, Šešelj’s defense demanded from the ICTY to end his trial ends and release Šešelj "urgently and immediately."

The motion says it is clear that Šešelj’s trial "cannot be continued in a fair manner for a flagrant violation of the principle of expediency, and lists numerous examples of obvious violations of fundamental human rights and procedural rights of the defendant."

Šešelj has suffered "intangible damages that cannot be compensated only by a statement confirming that his rights were violated, but necessitate a compensation payment to the amount of EUR 12 million," the motion said.

Šešelj’s defense said that all the elements of the case had effectively been annulled as one of the judges in his trial, Frederick Harhoff, was disqualified for demonstrating an unacceptable appearance of bias in favour of conviction.

An ICTY chamber made the decision to disqualify the Danish judge from the bench in his case at the end of August, following Šešelj’s defense motion for that to be done based on a controversial letter in which the judge complains about some of the international court’s rulings.

The defendant believes that, from a legal point of view, Judge Mandiaye Niang, who replaced Harhoff as the third judge in the Šešelj trial, "cannot be automatically fitted in in the trial."

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