Glavas Released from Mostar Prison
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The Court of BiH announced that the execution of Glavas’ sentence would be discontinued until “a new second instance verdict has been submitted by the country, pronouncing the sentence against him.”
In December 2010 the Court of BiH sentenced Glavas to eight years’ in prison for crimes against Serb civilians in Osijek in 1991, accepting a verdict pronounced in the Republic of Croatia.
Glavas, former Secretary with the Municipal Secretariat for National Defence, was found guilty of having failed to prevent the torture, causing of injuries of bodily integrity and the unlawful detention of the Serb civilian population from July to December 1991.
Prior to the pronouncement of the verdict in Croatia, Glavas fled to BiH, whose citizenship he has. Considering the fact that Croatia and BiH signed an agreement on execution of criminal and legal sanctions, Glavas appeared before the Court of BiH.
When the Court accepted the verdict, Glavas was sent to the Mostar prison in March 2011 in order to serve his sentence.
Nearly four years later the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia has quashed the verdict against Glavas due to application of “a wrong legal convention” at his trial and ordered a new trial.
