Two Yugoslav war criminals to Finland

Finland has received two war criminals who will serve their sentences in Finland. Zlatko Aleksovski and Anto Furundzija were sentenced to imprisonment by the UN International Criminal Tribunal to the Former Yugoslavia earlier this year. More information about their sentences can be found at the website of the ICTY(Link to another website.)

The imprisonment of the convicts in Finland is part of the cooperation between Finland and the ICTY. Finland values highly the tribunal´s work in convicting war criminals in the Former Yugoslavia. The tasks of the ICTY are challenging and an integral part of the activities of the international community in order to bring people responsible for serious crimes to account for their actions in a court of law.

In addition to Finland, the ICTY has signed treaties on similar cooperation with Italy, Norway, Sweden and Austria. Treaties with France and Spain are scheduled to come into force in a few months´ time.

More information: Esko Kiuru, Deputy Director General, Ministry for Foreign Affairs (ICTY cooperation), tel: +358-9-13415732, and Markku Salminen, Chief Director, Ministry of Justice (prison service), tel: +358-9-182588400.