Tribunal Orders Release of Bosnian Croat Officer
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From Times Wire Reports
An appeals chamber of the United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ordered the immediate release of Mario Cerkez, a former Bosnian Croat military commander sentenced to 15 years in 2001.
The Hague-based court said reasons would be given Dec. 17, when the judgment in the case against Cerkez and co-defendant Dario Kordic will be rendered.
Cerkez and Kordic had appealed their convictions. Kordic, a politician, had been sentenced to 25 years after being found guilty of crimes against humanity.
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