The Criminal Court in Brussels on Wednesday again announced the life imprisonment sentence for Veselin Vukotić and Andrija Drašković, who are accused of the murder of Kosovar human rights activist Enver Hadri.
Hadri was killed in Brussels 35 years ago.
The court found that Hadri was killed on the orders of the Intelligence Service of the former Yugoslavia.
This was announced by the Hadri family, which for many years has sought justice before the Belgian courts for the murder of Enver.
The guilt of Vukotic and Draskovic was confirmed by the jury on Tuesday, while the sentence was announced on Wednesday.
The jury made these decisions after hearing witnesses and reviewing evidence presented by the prosecution and defense attorneys.
Veselin Vukotic and Andrija Draskovic, along with Bozidar Spasic, were sentenced to life imprisonment in 2016 , but both parties appealed, so the trial was retried.
Bozidar Spasic, a senior intelligence official from Belgrade, has not appealed, meaning his life sentence remains in effect.
The convicts are in Serbia and the trial in Brussels was held in absentia.
Enver Hadri was killed on February 15, 1990 in Brussels by gunfire from a car.
The investigations conducted, meanwhile, led to the conclusion that the murder was committed for political motives, organized by Yugoslav services and with logistical support from the Belgrade underground.
Enver Hadri was the chairman of the Committee for the Protection of Human Rights in Kosovo and a political émigré who collected documents to prove the Serbian regime's violence against Albanians in Kosovo.
The murder of Enver Hadri was considered one of the five most well-known political assassinations carried out by the Yugoslav secret service./ REL (A2 Televizion)
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