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Karadzic: Trial Chamber appointed

Alphons Orie

30 July 2008  

The Hague Tribunal has appointed the Trial Chamber in the case of Radovan Karadzic.

As per an announcement issued by the Hague Tribunal, the Trial Chamber in the case of Radovan Karadzic will be composed of presiding judge Alphons Orie, judge Christine Van den Wyngaert and judge Bakone Justice Moloto.

Karadzic, who is charged by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, with having committed genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the course of the 1992-1995 war, was apprehended in Belgrade on July 21.

The wartime President of Republika Srpska was transferred to the Detention Unit in Scheweningen in the
morning hours on July 30. His initial appearance before the Court is due on July 31.

As announced by the Tribunal, Karadzic is due to enter his plea before judge Alphons Orie.

Orie was a judge at the trial of Stanislav Galic, who was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment for the siege of Sarajevo. The Appellate Chamber revised the verdict, sentencing him to lifetime imprisonment.

Orie was also a presiding judge at the trials of Ranko Cesic and Darko Mrdja. After having admitted guilt, Cesic was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment for crimes in Brcko, while Mrdja was sentenced to 17 years, after admitting guilt for crimes on mount Vlasic.

The Trial Chamber, sitting in the case of Radovan Karadzic, announced the verdict against Dragan Zelenovic, sentencing him to 15 years' imprisonment, after he had admitted guilt for crimes in Foca.

Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz, who addressed the public after Karadzic's extradition to the Tribunal, said that he could not specify when the trial would commence and how long it might last.