Icanovic Undergoing Medical Treatment
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After today’s status conference, the Cantonal Court in Bihac has decided not to set a start date for the Hasan Icanovic trial, as the defendant is undergoing medical treatment.
During the status conference, Icanovic’s defense attorney Ibrahim Kadic presented medical documents confirming that his client is in the Bihac hospital. Trial chamber chairwoman Jasminka Karabegovic ordered Kadic to inform the court about Icanovic’s health condition within the next ten days.
Kadic said that he didn’t know what his client’s current condition was, and that he might request an expert examination of his defendant’s ability to follow the trial.
Prosecutor Merima Mesanovic presented her proposal for evidence presentation. Mesanovic said that she planned to examine eleven witnesses and court experts, and to present material evidence.
Icanovic has been charged with killing two prisoners of war, both members of the National Defence of the Autonomous Region of Western Bosnia. He is also charged with beating other detainees with a rifle butt at Latica Glavica near Velika Kladusa in 1994.
According to the charges, Icanovic was Commander of the 505th Brigade of the Fifth Corps with the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The state prosecution filed an indictment against him in September, and the case was later referred to the Cantonal Court in Bihac.
Icanovic was arrested in August last year. He was released a month later on probation, which included a ban on traveling and home detention.
