CEDH · PRESS;GENERAL;ENG — 20 décembre 2001

.s3ABFC313 { font-size:10pt } .s598389F9 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:center; font-size:12pt } .s29100277 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold } .s85646119 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-align:justify; font-size:12pt } .sAF7EE609 { width:354.4pt; display:inline-block } .sBB9EE52A { font-family:Arial } .sEDC5336B { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; page-break-inside:avoid; page-break-after:avoid; font-size:12pt } .sCB27B9E { width:16.66pt; display:inline-block } .sC5412BEF { width:51.05pt; display:inline-block } .s2EF62ED2 { margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt } .s4DDA3AA3 { font-family:Arial; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic } .sA36B60A1 { font-family:Arial; font-style:italic } EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS     981   21.12.2001   Press release issued by the Registrar     Application by Slobodan Milošević     On 20 December 2001 Mr Slobodan Milošević, former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, filed an application with the European Court of Human Rights. Mr Milošević, who was born in 1940, is at present detained in the UN detention centre, The Hague, the Netherlands.   Mr Milošević’s application is brought against the Netherlands, where on 31 August 2001 the President of the Hague Regional Court, in summary proceedings taken by Mr Milošević seeking his immediate release and return to Yugoslavia, found that the Netherlands courts had no jurisdiction.   Before the Strasbourg Court, Mr Milošević relies on the following Articles of the European Convention on Human Rights: 5 (right to liberty and security), 6 (right to a fair trial), 10 (freedom of expression), 13 (right to an effective remedy) and 14 (prohibition of discrimination). His complaints are directed against his arrest and detention and the proceedings currently conducted against him in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.   Mr Milošević is represented by, among others, Mr N.M.P. Steijnen, counsel, of Zeist, the Netherlands.             Registry of the European Court of Human Rights F – 67075 Strasbourg Cedex Contacts:   Roderick Liddell (telephone: (0)3 88 41 24 92)   Emma Hellyer (telephone: (0)3 90 21 42 15) Fax: (0)3 88 41 27 91   The European Court of Human Rights was set up in Strasbourg in 1959 to deal with alleged violations of the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights. On 1 November 1998 a full-time Court was established, replacing the original two-tier system of a part-time Commission and Court.