Šešelj sues Hague prosecution

Serb Radical Party (SRS) leader Vojislav Seselj has submitted contempt of court against the prosecution to the Hague Tribunal President Patrick Robinson. Seselj made this move after learning that Miodrag Lukovac had given false testimony in the proceeding against Slobodan Milosevic, after being pressured and blackmailed by the prosecution, his party said today. Seselj sues Hague prosecution Member of Seselj's expert defense team Vjerica Radeta says that Lukovac himself spoke to the opposition party. According to her, Lukovac submitted a valid statement to the expert defense team, describing how "employees of the tribunal tortured him and his family in order to make him testify falsely against Milosevic". “Lukovac was constantly threatened that, unless he falsely testified against Slobodan Milosevic, the tribunal would raise an indictment against him too,” Radeta pointed out. In his statement, Lukovac mentions the prosecution investigators Paolo Pastore Stocchi, and military expert for the prosecution, Rejno Tunens, as the "chief blackmailers", along with Prosecutors Daniel Saxon and Hildegard Urtz-Retzlaff, and Judge Richard May. “SRS expects that Patrick Robinson will urgently react to this criminal complaint because he himself bears some responsibility, since he was a member of the trial chamber at the time when witness Miodrag Lukovac was questioned,” she pointed out. Seselj has been incarcerated at the Hague since 2003, and is undergoing his trial accused of war crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

Šešelj sues Hague prosecution

Member of Šešelj's expert defense team Vjerica Radeta says that Lukovac himself spoke to the opposition party.

According to her, Lukovac submitted a valid statement to the expert defense team, describing how "employees of the tribunal tortured him and his family in order to make him testify falsely against Milošević".

“Lukovac was constantly threatened that, unless he falsely testified against Slobodan Milošević, the tribunal would raise an indictment against him too,” Radeta pointed out.

In his statement, Lukovac mentions the prosecution investigators Paolo Pastore Stocchi, and military expert for the prosecution, Rejno Tunens, as the "chief blackmailers", along with Prosecutors Daniel Saxon and Hildegard Urtz-Retzlaff, and Judge Richard May.

“SRS expects that Patrick Robinson will urgently react to this criminal complaint because he himself bears some responsibility, since he was a member of the trial chamber at the time when witness Miodrag Lukovac was questioned,” she pointed out.

Šešelj has been incarcerated at the Hague since 2003, and is undergoing his trial accused of war crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.