The Trial Chamber of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals handed down convictions in The Hague today in the case of Prosecutor v. Jovica Stanišić and Franko Simatović.

The Trial Chamber found Stanišić and Simatović guilty under all counts of the Indictment and sentenced them to 12 years of imprisonment each, subject to credit for the period of time they have spent in custody thus far.

Stanišić and Simatović were the leaders of the State Security Service of Serbia. The two were initially acquitted of all charges by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in 2013 but the verdict was overturned two years later.