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Former Bosnia Serb leader transferred to UK to serve 20-year sentence

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

[JURIST] Former Bosnian Serb leader Momcilo Krajisnik has been transferred to the UK to serve his 20-year prison sentence, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) announced Tuesday. Krajisnik was originally sentenced to 27 years in 2006, but his sentenced was reduced to 20 years in March after the charges of murder, extermination, and persecution were overturned on appeal. He will serve the 20-year sentence for crimes against humanity. Krajisnik will be the third ICTY prisoner to begin serving his sentence in the UK under the rules of the ICTY. At Krajisnik's 2006 trial, the ICTY found him not guilty on a charge of genocide for which prosecutors had requested a life sentence, instead sentencing him to 27 years imprisonment. Krajisnik was initially indicted together with Biljana Plavsic, the former Bosnian Serb president who was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2003 after testifying against Krajisnik. Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, with whom Krajisnik worked closely, was arrested last year and currently faces war crimes charges before the ICTY.

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on September 09, 2009 (boomark / email).