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International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
The Tribunal building in The Hague
Court NameInternational Criminal Tribunal
for the former Yugoslavia
Imagesize250px
CaptionThe Tribunal building in The Hague
Established25 May 1993
Countryformer Yugoslavia
LocationThe Hague, the Netherlands
Coordinates 
AuthorityUnited Nations Security Council Resolution 827
TermsFour years
Positions16 permanent
12 ad litem
ChiefjudgetitlePresident
ChiefjudgenamePatrick Lipton Robinson (Jamaica)
Termstart17 November 2008
Termend22010

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The International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991, more commonly referred to as the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia or ICTY, is a body of the United Nations established to prosecute serious crimes committed during the wars in the former Yugoslavia, and to try their perpetrators. The tribunal is an ad hoc court which is located in The Hague, the Netherlands.

The Court was established by Resolution 827 of the United Nations Security Council, which was passed on 25 May 1993. It has jurisdiction over four clusters of crime committed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia since 1991: grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, violations of the laws or customs of war, genocide, and crime against humanity. The maximum sentence it can impose is life imprisonment. Various countries have signed agreements with the UN to carry out custodial sentences. The last indictment was issued 15 March 2004. The Tribunal aims to complete all trials by the middle of 2011 and all appeals by 2013, with the exception of Radovan Karadžić whose trial is expected to end in 2012 and the appeal to be heard by February 2014. Ratko Mladić, arrested in May 2011 and Goran Hadžić, arrested in July 2011, did not fall within the court's completion strategy. The United Nations Security Council called upon the Tribunal to finish its work by 31 December 2014 to prepare for its closure and transfer of its responsibilities to the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals which will begin functioning for the ICTY branch on 1 July 2013.

Hadžić became the last of 161 indicted fugitives to be arrested after Serbian President Boris Tadic announced his arrest on 20 July 2011.


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