Two Verdicts to Be Pronounced Next Week
The pronouncement of the verdict is scheduled for Wednesday, June 10. Under a first instance verdict from January 2014, Veselko and Ivo Raguz were acquitted of charges for having arrested and detained Bosniak men from the Stolac area, forcibly resettled women and children and physically abused and tortured civilians in Dretelj in July and August 1993.
On Tuesday, June 9 the court will pronounce a second instance verdict against Sreten Lazarevic, Dragan Stanojevic and Slobodan Ostojic for crimes committed in Zvornik.
The chamber will render the decision in regard to the application of law and the pronounced sentence, because, on April 15, the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina partially quashed a second instance verdict, under which Lazarevic, Stanojevic and Ostojic were sentenced to a total of 21 years in prison.
The trial of Zeljko Stanarevic, who is charged with having participated in the murder of civilians in the Bihac area in 1992, is due to begin on Monday, June 8.
On Monday, June 8 the prosecution and defense are due to present their closing statements at the trial of Slavko Savic, who is charged with having raped a female person in Semizovac in the municipality of Vogosca in May and June 1993.
On June 10 the Bosnian prosecution and defense teams will present their closing statements at the trial of Jasmin Coloman, who is charged with crimes in Vitez.
The prosecution and defense will present their closing statements on Friday, June 12 at the trial of Srecko Boskovic, who is charged with crimes in the Zvornik area in July 1995.
The presentation of closing statements by Nihad Bojadzic, who is charged with crimes in Trusina, near Konjic, is due to be continued on Monday.
Trials for genocide in Srebrenica, as well as crimes committed in Hadzici, Konjic, Bihac, Sanski Most, Bileca, Rogatica, Cajnice, Srebrenik, Prijedor, Trnovo, Bijeljina, Mostar, Bosanski Brod, Kotor-Varos, Kalinovik, Prozor, Jablanica, Teslic, Cazin and Kladanj will be continued in the week ahead.
