Legal Journals

Slovakia Agrees to Enforce Sentences

By jtaylor

Slovakia has entered into an enforcement of sentences agreement with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), allowing for persons convicted before the Tribunal to serve their sentences in Slovak prisons.  The agreement is the second signed by the ICTY this year, and was signed by Mr. ?tefan Harabin, the Slovak Minister of Justice, and Mr. Hans Holthuis, the ICTY Registrar, at the ICTY in The Hague. Slovakia is the fifteenth European country to enter into such an agreement.  More information can be found here.

Full post as published by Harvard International Law Journal Digest on April 09, 2008 (boomark / email).