Wednesday, September 16, 2009

The freedom after seven years

BELGRADE - Former President of the Republic of Serbian Biljana Plavsic (79) will be prematurely released from Swedish prisons Hisenberg 27th October, as will her 24th October expire two thirds of the sentence of 11 years, how many convicted of crimes against non-Serbs during the war in BiH.
According to the reasoning of the decision of the Hague Tribunal President Patrick Robinson, Plavšić is, as it seems, provide significant evidence of rehabilitation "during his stay in prison. Judge Robinson had in mind and that the former president of the RS, the recognition of guilt for the persecution of Muslims and Croats in BiH 2002nd year, "accepted responsibility at an early stage of the proceedings, and the fact that the expressed remorse for the victims.
Lawyer Toma Fila said the voice of the public that the general rule of the Hague Tribunal to all convicts, when odleže two-thirds of the sentence, release, regardless of whether they admit guilt or not.
- While Theodor Meron was the court president, introduced a rule to exempt all after two-thirds of the sentence. Since that rule has exceptions, such as Milorad Krnojelac from Foca has served a full year longer though suffering from cancer - explains Phil.
On the other hand, the BiH Presidency Chairman Željko Komšić said yesterday that the decisions of judicial institutions must accept, but that is bitter about the decision of the Hague tribunal prison Biljana Plavsic.
- The sight of all those who are victims of the war in Bosnia, and policy Biljana Plašić, and all those who believe in BiH and the universal principles of justice, the court in The Hague will not be sure what he was up to making these decisions - assess Komsic .
RS Prime Minister's office yesterday said that today, Milorad Dodik, the RS president to visit the former prison.

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