Karadzic appeals life sentence

cde.news desk 28 March 2019, 17:45 · 1 min read

epa07450757 Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic enters the court room of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague, Netherlands, 20 March 2019. Nearly a quarter of a century since Bosnia's devastating war ended, Karadzic is set to hear the final judgment on whether he can be held criminally responsible for unleashing a wave of murder and destruction. United Nations appeals judges will on Wednesday rule whether to uphold or overturn Karadzic's 2016 convictions for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, as well as his 40-year sentence. EPA-EFE/PETER DEJONG / POOL

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic on Thursday filed an appeal against a UN court’s decision to increase his sentence to life in jail for war crimes, court documents said.

“President Radovan Karadzic hereby appeals… the life sentence imposed upon him”, said the legal notice filed by his lawyer Peter Robinson and released by the court. Appeals judges in The Hague last week upheld Karadzic’s 2016 conviction for genocide in the Srebrenica massacre and other atrocities throughout the Bosnian civil war in the 1990s.

They then increased his sentence from 40 years to life, saying the initial jail term had underestimated the “sheer scale and systematic cruelty” of his crimes.

Via AFP / France 24

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