ETHNIC ALBANIANS SEATED IN COURT IN TOWN OF NIS, 2000-05-24 (photo)

Ethnic Albanians seated in court during the trial in town of Nis some 220 km south of Belgrade, May 22. A Serb court on Monday sentenced 143 ethnic Albanians to jail terms ranging from seven to 13 years for terrorism. Following the largest Yugoslav mass trial ever held in Yugoslavia, Judge Goran Petronijevic said the accused had been sentenced because they committed criminal acts of terrorism during last year's NATO air war. He said 49 of them were jailed to 13 years imprisonment each, 51 to 12 years, 20 to 10 years each, and 11 to nine years and 10 of them to seven years each. Two juveniles were sentenced to seven years each in juvenile detention. GT/