{"id":12133,"date":"2024-12-09T12:10:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T11:10:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-09T17:21:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T16:21:20","slug":"enforcement-of-sentences-in-cases-transferred-under-rule-11bis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ustavbih.ba\/en\/article-ii-human-rights-and-fundamental-freedoms\/i-article-ii-8-cooperation\/cooperation-with-the-icty\/cooperation-on-the-basis-of-article-29-of-the-icty-statute\/cooperation-in-light-of-the-completion-strategy-of-the-icty\/ii-the-completion-strategy-and-the-transfer-of-cases-from-the-icty-to-the-authorities-of-bih\/enforcement-of-sentences-in-cases-transferred-under-rule-11bis\/","title":{"rendered":"Enforcement of Sentences in Cases Transferred under Rule 11bis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">It is questionable whether the failure of the Entities\u2019 authorities to enforce sentences imposed by the Court of BiH in cases transferred by the ICTY (as was seen in the case against Radovan Stankovi\u0107) violates the duty to cooperate in accordance with Article II.8 of the Constitution and \u2013 if the failure constitutes a violation \u2013 which level (i.e., State level or Entity level) it should be attributed to. The ICTY did not go further than \u201cexpressing its concern\u201d about the escape of Radovan Stankovi\u0107, rather than addressing the issue in the context of cooperation obligations, which was probably due to the fact that the insufficiencies in relation to the enforcement system were well known at the time of both the motion for transfer being made by the OTP as well as at the time of the decision taken by the Referral Bench.<span class=\"s1\"><sup>2565 <\/sup><\/span>In any event, the failure to enforce imprisonment sentences such as in the Stankovi\u0107 case highlights the need to upgrade existing enforcement facilities and\/or to establish a new facility at the State level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is questionable whether the failure of the Entities\u2019 authorities to enforce sentences imposed by the Court of BiH in cases transferred by the ICTY (as was seen in the case against Radovan Stankovi\u0107) violates the duty to cooperate in accordance with Article II.8 of the Constitution and \u2013 if the failure constitutes a violation &hellip; 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