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Humanitarian Law CenterThe plaintiffs are advised to initiate lawsuits for the purpose of procuringeconomic and legal redress.The defendant is relieved of the obligation of bearing the costs of the criminalproceedings and of paying the lump sum fee to the court.On the basis of Article 354, Paragraph 1, of the Law on Criminal Procedureagainst defendant SAŠA CVJETANIS RELIEVED OF THE CHARGEThat he:In the time period between 28 March 1999 and 21 May 1999, did keep inhis apartment in Novi Sad, at No. 6, 19. maja Street, without authorisationof the competent organs, a Zbrojovka pistol of Czechoslovakian make, M-375, calibre 9 mm, factory number D-4754, with a cartridge clip and sixrounds of 9 mm which he had appropriated at the time of committing thecrime described in Article 1 and which was discovered upon his person on21 May 1999, whereby he would have committed the crime of illegal possessionof firearms as described in Article 33, Paragraph 1, of the Law onArms and Ammunition of the Republic of Serbia.ExplanationWith the indictment of the District Public Prosecution Office in Prokuplje,Kt. br. 25/99, dated 5 April 2002, the defendants, Saša Cvjetan and DejanDemirović, were both charged with committing a war crime against civilianpopulation as described in Article 142, Paragraph 1, of the Criminal Code ofYugoslavia, and the defendant Cvjetan also with the commission of a crimeof robbery, as described in Article 166, Paragraph 1, Item 4, of the CriminalCode of the Republic of Serbia, and the crime of illegal provision, possessionand carrying upon his person of a firearm and ammunition, as describedin Article 33, Paragraph 1, of the Law on Arms and Ammunition ofthe Republic of Serbia.The decision of the District Court in Prokuplje, Kv. br. 23/02, dated 8 April2002, stipulated that defendant Dejan Demirović shall be tried in absentia.260