Serbian Parliament passed
today the Law on Rights of ICTY Indictees Detained at The Hague and of Their
Families. It is considered as a positive political move, since the state started
in concrete terms to respect the Constitutional obligation to protect the rights
of its citizens facing legal need abroad.
The Law provides the Hague
detainees and their families with very modest financial assistance (compensation
of the salaries for those who were employed in Serbia, travel costs for visits
of the family members, around 170 EUR for phone calls per month
etc.).
The Law also gives right to
detainees to get expenses covered for the work of TWO lawyers (legal advisers or
assistants) in accordance with the tarif of the Serbian Bar (if these expenses
are not covered by ICTY). This will be more precisely ragulated by an additional
Government act which has to be adopted within two weeks. First estimate sais
that this would mean arround 5000 EUR per lawyer and per month.
In a case of such
unprecedented volume as the process of President Milosevic, this is apparently
insuficient and can only demotivate some donors.
Our call for donations can
only be intensified now.
Please help now before its
too late!
Vladimir Krsljanin,
Sloboda/ICDSM
