Serbia lifts international arrest warrant for Milosevic’s wife News
Serbia lifts international arrest warrant for Milosevic’s wife

[JURIST] After assurances from her lawyer that she would attend a scheduled September trial in Serbia on abuse of power charges, Serbian authorities have cancelled an international arrest warrant for Mirjana Markovic [Wikipedia profile], the wife of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic [JURIST archives]. Markovic is said to have fled to Russia in 2003 to avoid the charges. The withdrawal of the warrant allows her to visit her husband, currently on trial for war crimes [JURIST report] at The Hague. BBC News has more.