Milosevic launches human rights action
Slobodan Milosevic is asking a court to declare that his human rights have been violated. The former Yugoslav president, charged with genocide and other atrocities, has filed an application against the Netherlands with the European court of human rights in Strasbourg. He is seeking a...
Slobodan Milosevic is asking a court to declare that his human rights have been violated. The former Yugoslav president, charged with genocide and other atrocities, has filed an application against the Netherlands with the European court of human rights in Strasbourg.
He is seeking a ruling that his arrest, detention and forthcoming trial by the UN war crimes tribunal in the Hague are in breach of the European convention on human rights. He is citing the rights to liberty and security, a fair trial, and freedom of expression.
Mr Milosevic is charged with crimes against humanity and accused of responsibility for mass killings and expulsions of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo in 1999. He is also accused of the genocide of Muslims and Croats in Bosnia.
The former leader applied to the local Hague regional court last August for an order for his immediate release but the court ruled that it had no jurisdiction over him. No application can be made to the Strasbourg court unless the applicant exhausts all remedies available in the domestic courts.
The European court of human rights will first have to decide if the former president's complaint is admissible. That can take two years.
He is seeking a ruling that his arrest, detention and forthcoming trial by the UN war crimes tribunal in the Hague are in breach of the European convention on human rights. He is citing the rights to liberty and security, a fair trial, and freedom of expression.
Mr Milosevic is charged with crimes against humanity and accused of responsibility for mass killings and expulsions of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo in 1999. He is also accused of the genocide of Muslims and Croats in Bosnia.
The former leader applied to the local Hague regional court last August for an order for his immediate release but the court ruled that it had no jurisdiction over him. No application can be made to the Strasbourg court unless the applicant exhausts all remedies available in the domestic courts.
The European court of human rights will first have to decide if the former president's complaint is admissible. That can take two years.

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