January 21, 2000

Rajko Danilovic, a lawyer retained by the Humanitarian Law Center to defend

Flora Brovina, has filed an appeal with the Serbian Supreme Court against

the judgment pronounced by the District Court in Nis on hat have been

removed from the trial record.

Application of CPC Article 84 (1(2)) requires that such reports and

information have been removed from the record. Hence there were no grounds

for the application of this provision since the reports in question had not

been removed from the record and placed in a separer pre-trial detention, the Dinstitutes a serious violation of CPC Article 364

(1(11)) since in the accompanying opinion the incriminated acts are set out

in a disorderly fashion, making the opinion incomprehensible and

contradictory to the reasoning for the judgment. Furthermore, no

reasons are given for numerous decisive facts relating to the commission of

the criminal offense.

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of Albanian women.

The use of non-legal terms such as the one cited above shows that the Court

considers that protests and demonstrations admitted to

being a giraffe to describe the mental torture she was subjected to, the

District Court wound up the proceedings immediately after those cited in Article 136 is de facto wrong, legally

untenable, and shows that the District Court was under the influence of

prejudice, not legal reasoning.