Ex-leader of Serbs in Croatia pleads “not guilty“
Hague Tribunal indictee Goran Hadžić pleaded not guilty to all counts of the indictment for crimes against non-Serbs in Croatia on Wednesday.
Wednesday, 24.08.2011.
11:43
Hague Tribunal indictee Goran Hadzic pleaded not guilty to all counts of the indictment for crimes against non-Serbs in Croatia on Wednesday. He said before entering the plea that he did not wish the indictment to be publicly read in the courtroom. Ex-leader of Serbs in Croatia pleads “not guilty“ The court stated that a date for the beginning of the trial would be set afterward. Hadzic should by then get a permanent defense counsel. At the first hearing in the end of July Hadzic did not enter a plea to the 14-count indictment for crimes in Croatia and decided to exercise his right to have additional 30 days to prepare his defense. He was on the run from 2004 until July 20, 2011 when he was arrested by the Serbian authorities at Mt. Fruska Gora. Hadzic is accused of persecution, extermination and murder of non-Serbs, detention, torture, cruel treatment and inhumane acts, deportation and forcible transfer, wanton destruction of towns, destruction of cultural and religious sites and robbery. During the conflict in Croatia Hadzic was a prime minister of the Serbian Autonomous District (SAO) of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia and later president of self-proclaimed Republic of Serb Krajina. The Hague Tribunal has appointed judges Burton Hall of Bahamas, Guy Delvoie of Belgium and Antoine Mindua of Congo in charge of Hadzic’s trial. Hadzic is the last, 161st indictee, who was extradited to the Hague Tribunal. Goran Hadzic is seen ahead of his extradition (Beta, file)
Ex-leader of Serbs in Croatia pleads “not guilty“
The court stated that a date for the beginning of the trial would be set afterward. Hadžić should by then get a permanent defense counsel.At the first hearing in the end of July Hadžić did not enter a plea to the 14-count indictment for crimes in Croatia and decided to exercise his right to have additional 30 days to prepare his defense.
He was on the run from 2004 until July 20, 2011 when he was arrested by the Serbian authorities at Mt. Fruška Gora.
Hadžić is accused of persecution, extermination and murder of non-Serbs, detention, torture, cruel treatment and inhumane acts, deportation and forcible transfer, wanton destruction of towns, destruction of cultural and religious sites and robbery.
During the conflict in Croatia Hadžić was a prime minister of the Serbian Autonomous District (SAO) of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia and later president of self-proclaimed Republic of Serb Krajina.
The Hague Tribunal has appointed judges Burton Hall of Bahamas, Guy Delvoie of Belgium and Antoine Mindua of Congo in charge of Hadžić’s trial.
Hadžić is the last, 161st indictee, who was extradited to the Hague Tribunal.
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