30 March 2010 Šešelj trial was adjourned until further notice but was likely to resume in May 2010, after Šešelj's second contempt proceeding initiated against him by the Tribunal have ended. Prosecutors demanded a 28-year sentence against Šešelj for allegedly recruiting paramilitary groups and inciting them to commit atrocities during the Balkan wars of the early 1990s. In closing remarks at his war crimes trial on 14 March 2012, Šešelj said the Yugoslav tribunal empowered by the U.N. Security Council is actually a creation of Western intelligence agencies and it doesn't have jurisdiction in his case. He reportedly vowed "to make a mockery of his trial". In September 2011, the ICTY rejected Šešelj's bid to have his long-running trial discontinued. In his submission to the court, Šešelj had argued that his right to be tried in a reasonable amount of time has been violated, and called the situation "incomprehensible, scandalous and inappropriate". However, the bench ruled that "there is no predetermined threshold with regard to the time period beyond which a trial may be considered unfair on account of undue delay" and declared that Šešelj "failed to provide concrete proof of abuse of process". Provisional release On 6 November 2014, the ICTY granted Šešelj provisional release. The decision was made on the basis of Šešelj's diagnosis of metastatic cancer and deteriorating health. Šešelj returned to Belgrade after spending more than 11 years on what proved to be an inconclusive trial at the Hague. Verdict On 31 March 2016, one week after the conviction of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić, the ICTY found Šešelj not guilty on all charges, with a majority decision on eight counts and a unanimous decision on one. His acquittal was described by The Economist as "a victory for advocates of ethnic cleansing" which would have "broad ramifications for international justice." Aleksandar Vucic, who served as the PM at the time, commented that the case against Šešelj was inherently flawed and politicized from the beginning. The acquittal was appealed by prosecutors from the MICT, a United Nations Security Council agency which functions as oversight program of, and successor entity to, the ICTY. On 11 April 2018, the Appeals Chamber sentenced him to 10 years in prison under Counts 1, 10, and 11 of the indictment for instigating deportation, persecution (forcible displacement), and other inhumane acts (forcible transfer) as crimes against humanity due to his speech in Hrtkovci