ICTY case Prosecutor v. Duško Tadić

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ICTY case Prosecutor v. Duško Tadić was a landmark international criminal tribunal proceeding that produced the first conviction for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, helping to define modern jurisprudence on crimes against humanity and violations of the laws of war.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ICTY case
crimes against humanity case
international criminal case
acquittal some counts of grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions
appealOutcome convictions partly affirmed and partly reversed
appealsChamber ICTY Appeals Chamber
appealsChamberJudgmentDate 1999-07-15
appealsChamberPresident Antonio Cassese
charge crimes against humanity
grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions
violations of the laws or customs of war
citation IT-94-1
conviction crimes against humanity
violations of the laws or customs of war
countryOfCourt Netherlands
court International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
defendant Duško Tadić
finalSentence 20 years imprisonment
firstICTYAppealsJudgment true
firstICTYConvictionForWarCrimes true
firstICTYTrialJudgment true
indictmentDate 1995-02-13
influenced jurisprudence of the International Criminal Court
jurisprudence of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
subsequent ICTY and ICTR joint criminal enterprise case law
initialSentence 20 years imprisonment
jurisdiction International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
legalSignificance clarified concept of armed conflict in international humanitarian law
clarified customary international law on crimes against humanity
clarified elements of individual criminal responsibility in international law
clarified nexus requirement between crimes and armed conflict
developed doctrine of joint criminal enterprise
first final judgment of the ICTY Appeals Chamber
first international war crimes trial held by the ICTY
influential precedent for later international criminal tribunals
landmark in defining crimes against humanity
landmark in defining violations of the laws or customs of war
prosecutorParty Office of the Prosecutor of the ICTY
relatedConflict Bosnian War
relatedDetentionCamp Keraterm camp
Omarska camp
Trnopolje camp
linked to: Omarska camp
relatedTerritory Prijedor municipality
rulesApplied Geneva Conventions of 1949
linked to: Geneva Conventions

ICTY Rules of Procedure and Evidence
ICTY Statute
customary international humanitarian law
seatOfCourt The Hague
shortName Tadić case
timePeriodOfCrimes 1992
trialChamber Trial Chamber II of the ICTY
trialChamberJudgmentDate 1997-05-07

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