---------- From: Lee Mager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: ICTY-Appointed Lawyers Demand Milosevic's Release [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- This might actually be the ICTY's best bet in my opinion, considering the totally groundless case they have against the man. The whole world will see him being let off on a technicality, thinking "Gracious, we're too soft on these maniacs", which will save the "tribunal" the effort and cost of finding "evidence" and keeping Slobo quiet who so far seems to have turned their disgusting faces red with embarrassment, forcing them to become gibbering genocide-spouting robots. >From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: ICTY-Appointed Lawyers Demand Milosevic's Release >[WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] >Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 12:42:53 -0700 (PDT) > >HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK >--------------------------- > >Even the ICTY's three 'pseudo-defenders' recognize the >obvious, as Western publications from the New York >Times to The Nation heralded the kidnapping and >Judas-betrayal of Slobodan Milosevic as a new day for >humanity. And in a way it was: The dawning of a new >fascism. > >WIRE: 10/20/2001 10:46 am ET >U.N. Court-Named Lawyers Ask for Milosevic Release >BELGRADE (Reuters) - A lawyer appointed by the U.N. >war crimes court to act for Slobodan Milosevic said on >Saturday he and his colleagues had asked the court to >release the former Yugoslav leader on the grounds his >handover had been illegal. >Branislav Tapuskovic, one of the three "friends of the >court" appointed in September to ensure Milosevic has >a fair trial even though he has refused defense >attorneys, said they had lodged their complaint to the >Hague-based court on Friday. >"We have asked for the release of Milosevic on the >grounds that his handover to the court had been >illegitimate," Tapuskovic told Reuters by telephone. >He said Milosevic, who had been in a Serbian jail when >he was handed over to the U.N. court on June 28 by the >country's new rulers, had been transferred in breach >of regulations and without any formal decision. >Tapuskovic added the three lawyers, named in September >and who also include Briton Steven Kay and Dutch >advocate Mischa Wladimiroff, had also disputed the >legality of the way the U.N. war crimes tribunal was >set up in 1993. >Milosevic, who has been charged with crimes against >humanity in Serbia's Kosovo province in 1999 and for >"ethnic cleansing" in Croatia in 1991-1992, has said >he would have no contact with the three >court-appointed lawyers he calls "pseudo-defenders." >Chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte is also preparing an >indictment against Milosevic for crimes in Bosnia, >which she has signaled will include the charge of >genocide. >Tapuskovic said the complaint contained a large number >of objections and showed that he and his two >colleagues were determined to work in Milosevic's best >interests. >It comprises objections Milosevic made himself in >August when he appeared before the court. >During his last two appearances before the court >Milosevic called the tribunal illegal, its charges >"false" and refused to enter a plea or to accept >defense counsel in a display of contempt. >The complaint of the "friends of the court" will be >examined on October 29 when Milosevic is scheduled to >appear before the tribunal for the third time for a >pre-trial hearing which allows lawyers, judges and the >accused to review progress of a case. >A Milosevic loyalist in his party dismissed the >lawyers' move, saying they were "just putting of on an >act of doing positive things" and that they should >respect Milosevic's will not to have legal >representation. >
