THE HAGUE, Netherlands — An international appeals court at The Hague has rejected former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic’s appeals against his convictions of genocide and war crimes in Bosnia-Herzegovina during the 1990s, and has extended his 40-year sentence to life in prison.
RFE/RL: UN court rejects Karadzic’s appeal against genocide, war crimes convictions
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic reacts at the court room of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague, Netherlands, on March 20, 2019, while waiting to hear the final judgement on his role in the bloody conflict that tore his country apart a quarter of a century ago.
