Oliver Ivanović’s lawyer, Ljubomir Pantović, said that the team of lawyers are working intensively on writing the appeal to the Appellate Court in relation to the verdict that sentenced him to nine years of imprisonment, and added that he expects a releasing decision.
Ljubomir Pantovic, one of the lawyers in the case against Oliver Ivanovic, says that Ivanovic is optimistic and believes that the Appellate Court will rule according to the evidence. Yesterday, EULEX judges submitted a written decision to Ivanovic defence lawyers, and in next 15 days they will submit an appeal. Lawyers from abroad and central Serbia joined the defence team, which should prove that Oliver Ivanović is not guilty.
EULEX panel of judges today provided defense lawyers of the leader of the Civic Initiative SDP Oliver Ivanovic, with a written verdict sentencing him to nine years in prison for war crimes committed in Mitrovica in 1999.
This has paved the way for defense lawyers to appeal the decision. Ivanovic’s lawyer Nebojsa Vlajic said that verdict written on 192 pages has been received and that deadline to appeal the decision is 15 days, which they will observe.
Defense attorneys of the leader of the Civic Initiative SDP Olvier Ivanović, who was sentenced nine years in prison for war crimes in Kosovo in January, expect a written judgment from the international panel of judges of the Basic Court in Mitrovica in early April, after which they will file an appeal.
At the session of the Municipal Assembly of Mitrovica North, based on a proposal of Councillor Igor Simic from the CI SDP Oliver Ivanovic, a resolution on the politically motivated verdict to Oliver Ivanovic was adopted.
The President of the Municipal Assembly of North Mitrovica and deputy leader of the SDP Oliver Ivanovic Civic Initiative, Ksenija Bozovic, stated that the written judgment has not been received by Oliver Ivanovic’s defense lawyers even a month after he was sentenced by the Basic Court of Mitrovica, making it possible for them to appeal the decision.
Verdict to Oliver Ivanovic is deeply unfair. Because of it the fact is even more apparent that even today no one has been held responsible for thousands of deaths and displaced Serbs from Kosovo.
Thus, in an interview for Blic, Marko Djuric, Director of the Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija, answers the question of where is the justice when Hashim Thaci is walking free, while Ivanovic gets nine years in prison for war crimes.
The verdict of the case of leader of the CI SDP, Oliver Ivanovic, clearly sends a message to all people in Kosovo that democratic rights and justice when it comes to the Serbian people do not exist, said president of the Serbian List, Slavko Simic today. "It is obvious that law and democracy in Kosovo are managed by politics, and the case led against Ivanovic is proof of this," said Simic in a written statement to the media.
Oliver Ivanovic, former leader of the Serbian Initiative (SDP) was convicted of war crimes at the Basic Court in Mitrovica on Thursday and sentenced to nine years in prison for ordering the murder of nine ethnic Albanians in Mitrovica on April 14, 1999. However, he was not found guilty on the charges of committing crimes in 2000.
Kosovo Serb political party leader Oliver Ivanovic has been jailed for nine years for war crimes, convicted of ordering the murder of ethnic Albanians in Mitrovica in April 1999.
Ivanovic, a former Serbian government official and head of a Kosovo Serb political party called Freedom, Democracy, Justice, was convicted of war crimes at the Basic Court in Mitrovica on Thursday and jailed for nine years.
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