{"id":80489,"date":"2025-09-26T21:41:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T19:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=80489"},"modified":"2025-09-26T21:41:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T19:41:36","slug":"war-crimes-convict-nebojsa-pavkovic-to-be-freed-early-due-to-health-condition-vucic-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/war-crimes-convict-nebojsa-pavkovic-to-be-freed-early-due-to-health-condition-vucic-says\/","title":{"rendered":"War crimes convict Neboj\u0161a Pavkovi\u0107 to be freed early due to health condition, Vu\u010di\u0107 says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Serbian President Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107 stated on Friday in New York that the Mechanism in The Hague has decided, due to serious health conditions, to grant early release to Serbian General Neboj\u0161a Pavkovi\u0107.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Pavkovi\u0107, former commander of the Yugoslav Army, was sentenced to 22 years in prison for crimes against Albanians in Kosovo in 1999. The verdict against him is final.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Vu\u010di\u0107 told reporters in New York that the Government of Serbia, at his request, had submitted an application for his early release due to Pavkovi\u0107\u2019s \u201cextremely serious health condition.\u201d According to him, Serbia\u2019s Ministry of Justice is now sending an annex to the Mechanism in The Hague, after which their response is expected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAnd then we can go and bring General Pavkovi\u0107 back, so he can see the sun of a free Serbia, for which so much was fought, bravely, in 1999,\u201d Vu\u010di\u0107 said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">In 2009, Pavkovi\u0107 was found guilty on all counts of the indictment and convicted for deportation, forced displacement, murder, and persecution of Kosovar Albanian civilians during the first half of 1999.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serbian President Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107 stated on Friday in New York that the Mechanism in The Hague has decided, due to serious health conditions, to grant early release to Serbian General Neboj\u0161a Pavkovi\u0107. 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