Milosevic to challenge his arrest and detention online.ie Jul 2001 Slobodan Milosevic is to ask a Dutch court to declare that his handover to the UN war crimes tribunal and his continued detention are illegal. Canadian lawyer Christopher Black told the Hague an action would be taken through the Dutch courts within the next few weeks. Mr Black said Dutch law offered unspecified remedies in cases where a person is arrested illegally and brought into the Netherlands. "And we intend to use that about his position with the ICTY," Mr Black, one of several members of Milosevic's legal team, said, referring to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Mr Black also said Milosevic's lawyers would challenge the authority of the court "because the UN Security Council has no authority to create it." The council established the tribunal in 1993 to prosecute cases of atrocities allegedly committed during Yugoslav wars of the past decade. "The general strategy is that we will use every forum outside the ICTY to contest his detention before the ICTY," Mr Black added. "The Dutch court, the EU Commission, probably actions in the UN General Assembly, and his position before the ICTY." Milosevic was transferred from Belgrade to the tribunal last month to face charges stemming from his crackdown against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo two years ago. http://www.online.ie/news/latest_world/viewer.adp?article=1407820 Miroslav Antic, http://www.antic.org/ STOP NOVOM SVETSKOM PORETKU ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?bUrBE8.bVKZIq Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
