November 12, 2013 “Bosnian Judiciary Urged to Ensure Fairness for All” Justice Report, BIRN Representatives of Bosnian judicial institutions and the EU on Monday discussed the changes needed to ensure citizens’ equality before the law after the European Court of Human Rights’ ruling earlier this year led to the quashing of several war crimes verdicts. The court in Strasbourg ruled in July that two Bosnian war criminals’ rights had been violated because they should have been tried under the potentially more lenient former Yugoslav criminal code instead of the 2003 criminal code of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was adopted after they committed their crimes and allowed for tougher sentences. The two men who took the case to Strasbourg, Goran Damjanovic and Abduladhim Maktouf, will now be retried. Ten other war crimes convicts’ sentences have also been overturned as a result of the Strasbourg ruling. balkaninsight/en/article/bosnian-citizens-need-equality-before-law?utm_source=Balkan+Transitional+Justice+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=fe7c9603cd-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_561b9a25c3-fe7c9603cd-319681277
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