Judges accused of "fundamental failure" in acquitting Serbian politician 


The decision by a majority of judges to acquit Serbian nationalist politician Vojislav Šešelj on charges of war crimes, has been criticized by a leading UN prosecutor.

The Chief Prosecutor of the UN Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) said that there had been a "fundamental failure" by the majority to "perform their function".

Serge Brammertz added that an appeal by his office against last month's judgement by the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, was of the "utmost priority" on behalf of the "victims of the crimes" allegedly committed.

Mr Brammertz said that errors the MICT had identified in the majority decision, were of a "far reaching nature" and that judges had failed to consider large portions of evidence, or adequately explain their conclusions.


SOURCE: Janie Cangelosi, United Nations.