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ICTY Appeals Chamber Upholds Convictions of Bosnian Officials (January 30, 2015)
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By: Monica Moyo | February 6, 2015 - 2:51pm
On January 30, 2015, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal of the Former Yugoslavia (the Court) issued its judgment in Prosecutor v. Popovic et al., upholding the convictions of five senior Bosnian officials for crimes perpetrated by Bosnian Serb troops in 1995. According to the press release, the Court “dismissed, unanimously or by majority, most of the Appellant’s challenges” and affirmed convictions for genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. The Court also affirmed the sentences of three of the defendants and reduced one by one year. The case is considered the ICTY’s “largest completed case to date.”