World Courant
The Supreme Court docket of Kosovo has acquitted the official of the Serbian Record, Ivan Todosijevic, of all accusations of hate speech in his assertion denying the bloodbath of Recak.
The choice signifies that the earlier verdict, by which he was sentenced to 1 12 months in jail, is annulled.
His lawyer, Nebojsha Vlajic, confirmed the information of his acquittal from all costs for Radio Evropa e Lire.
“The choice of the Supreme Court docket is last, there aren’t any extra appeals or procedures, Mr. Todosijevic is a free man,” mentioned Vlajic.
Ivan Todosijevic was tried twice for “spreading hatred and intolerance”. The primary time he was sentenced to 2 years in jail, however the Supreme Court docket of Kosovo determined on the finish of 2021 to return the trial to the start.
In a repeated trial on the Fundamental Court docket in Pristina, he was sentenced to 1 12 months in jail.
The trial in opposition to him was held due to hate speech. Todosijevic acknowledged in March 2019 that the rationale for the “NATO aggression” in opposition to the targets of the Yugoslav military in 1999 was the “so-called humanitarian catastrophe in Kosovo and the fictional bloodbath of Recak”.
Todosijevic is a member of the management of Lista Serbe, the most important celebration of Kosovo Serbs that has the assist of Belgrade. He’s additionally the mayor of the Serbian parallel municipality of Zveçan.
On the time when Todosijević made the statements in regards to the Reçak bloodbath, he held the place of Minister of Native Self-Authorities Administration within the Authorities of Kosovo. He was then fired by the then Prime Minister of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj.
Along with calling the occasions in Recak “fiction”, the statements made on the twentieth anniversary of the beginning of the NATO bombings in opposition to Yugoslavia on the time, Todosijevic additionally mentioned that “Albanian terrorists, who invented all of them, made them the largest crimes in Kosovo and Metohija, for which nobody has been imprisoned and has not given duty till immediately”.
NATO launched assaults on Serbian targets to stop violence by Serbian army, police and paramilitary forces in opposition to Albanians in Kosovo. This occasion was preceded by the homicide of 45 Albanians within the village of Reçak in Shtime.
The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has publicly defended Todosijevic, saying that he believes that “Recak is fiction” and that Serbs in Kosovo would not have the correct to freedom of speech.
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The official of the Serbian Record, Todosijevic, is acquitted of the fees after the assertion about Raçak
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