Council of Europe (CoE) Rapporteur Dick Marty is negotiating witness protection guarantees with EULEX, it has been confirmed.
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton’s Spokeswoman Maja KocijanÄić has confirmed that the negotiations on witness protection are underway, daily Blic writes.
Justice Minister Snežana Malović says an impartial and thorough Kosovo organ trafficking probe cannot be take place without offering full security to witnesses. “Witnesses have to be fully protected, all cases involving murder and threatening of witnesses have to be thoroughly investigated, and those responsible have to be sanctioned,†Malović said in an interview with the Banja Luka daily Glas Srpske.
Following his report on crimes and human organ trafficking in Kosovo, and Albania, Dick Marty pointed to the problem of securing an impartial investigation.
The Council of Europe rapporteur also commented on “an appropriate court which would guarantee the security of witnesses and which would not allow pressures from the outside”.
Justice Minister Snežana Malović says that an attempt of some criminal groups to get to a witness associate in case against Darko Šarić has been halted.
She told daily Blic that she could not give any more details about this.
UPDATED: Oracle attorneys have been trying to connect new HP CEO Leo Apotheker to the 2007 IP thefts, although they could not prove definitively that he knew about them. – Oracle on Nov. 19 concluded arguments in its 3-week-old copyright violations
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Gwyneth Paltrow and Cameron Diaz were recently spotted together in L.A. eatery Tavern for nearly three hours of food, wine and girl talk. The two were in fun mood. A witness said that Paltrow and Diaz, both 38, chatted up with their waiter too. “Cameron was flirty with him,†Usmagazine.com quoted the witness as saying.
Although Lindsay Lohan sounded remorseful in her Sept. 17 Tweet, where she admitted to failing a drug test, a witness has revealed that the star laughed and quaffed as she crafted that statement on her Blackberry. The witness also said that the ‘Mean Girls’ star typed her confession that night at Hollywood eatery Magnolia. Lohan [...]
The trial of 15 Partizan football club fans accused of killing French national Brice Taton was postponed today after a witness failed to show up in court.
A new hearing was scheduled for early November when the protected witness will be available to testify.
Naomi Campbell has been ordered to testify at the war crimes trial of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor.
Prosecutors say the supermodel was given a so-called “blood diamond†from Taylor after a gala dinner in South Africa. She has previously refused to comment on the allegations or give testimony.
The trial of former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadžić continues on Wednesday before the Hague tribunal with more witness testimonies.
The prosecution’s fifth witness will be former Sky News reporter Aernhout van Lynden, after which former EU mission chief in Bosnia-Herzegovina Colm Doyle will take the stand.
A witness in the Hague Tribunal trial against three former Croatian generals said that there was no fighting in a Serb village where civilians were killed. The witness, Branko Balunović, who was an officer in the Croatian Interior Ministry’s special anti-terrorism unit at the time, confirmed that he was ordered to write in his report that the civilian bodies that were found had died in conflicts.
Radovan Karadžić says Hague prosecution’s witness Ahmet Zulić lied in his testimony about surviving a mass murder of Muslims in Sanski Most, Bosnia, in 1992. The former Bosnian Serb political leader, who is representing himself, asserted during the cross-examination of the witness at the Hague Tribunal that the massacre was “completely made upâ€, telling the witness that only one body of a Muslim killed from firearms had been exhumed at the location after the war.
Prosecution’s first witness took the stand yesterday at the Hague Tribunal in the trial of Zdravko Tolimir, a former Bosnian Serb officer. The witness described how he survived shootings of hundreds of Muslims from Srebrenica in July 1995.
A protected witness in the trial of the KLA’s Gnjilane Group recognized one of the indictees as the person who abused him in 1999 in Gnjilane. The witness, testifying under the pseudonym B1, was at the High Court in Belgrade today in a separate room, with his voice changed in order to protect his identity.
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said he would call Prime Minister Najib Razak and his wife as witnesses in his sodomy trial due to begin on Tuesday, accusing them of conspiring against him. Anwar, who was sacked as deputy premier and jailed on similar charges a decade ago,
An administrative debate in the case of Vojislav Šešelj ensued after the expected suspect did not show up to testify before the Hague Tribunal. Protected witness VS-026 did not come to the court on Tuesday because he recently underwent surgery, and another witness is expected to testify next week.
‘Sex and the City”” star Kristin Davis seems to have now found love in celebrity photographer Russell James.
“It”’’s been going on for a bit now. She”’’s very supportive of him – she seems very happy,” People magazine quoted a source as saying.
The pair was recently spotted enjoying a cozy dinner in Los Angeles.
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Michael Jackson had a false nose that was missing as he lay in the morgue, it was revealed last night.
The sensational claim was made by a witness who saw the 50-year-old’s body on an autopsy table in Los Angeles.
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