Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has appealed the decision by a UN-mandated court to increase his sentence to life in prison for war crimes and genocide, according to the legal notice released by the appeals court in The Hague on Thursday
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 28th March, 2019) Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has appealed the decision by a UN-mandated court to increase his sentence to life in prison for war crimes and genocide, according to the legal notice released by the appeals court in The Hague on Thursday.In March 2016, the UN tribunal for the former Yugoslavia found Karadzic guilty of 10 out of 11 counts of genocide, war crimes and other atrocities committed during the Bosnian War. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison, but his defense appealed the court ruling.
The five judges of the Appeals Chamber of the International Residual Mechanism Tribunals in The Hague on March 20 dismissed all but one of Karadzic appeals and increased the 40-year prison term handed down in 2016 to life in prison.
