Bosniak Deputy Commander Faces Prisoner Abuse Retrial
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The appeals chamber also partially accepted a prosecution appeal on some counts of the acquittal, for which Bojadzic will be retried.
The court granted both appeals on the grounds of violations of the criminal law and incorrectly and incompletely established facts.
In the first instance verdict in April 2014, Bojadzic was found guilty of crimes against prisoners of war and sentenced to one year in prison, but was acquitted of 13 counts in the indictment.
He was found guilty of having ordered a soldier to beat two captured members of the Croatian Defence Council at the Battle of Neretva museum in Jablanica in July 1993, and of abusing another prisoner by firing a gun near his head in Donja Jablanica in September 1993.
The court however acquitted him of several other charges including raping one prisoner, ordering two detainees to sexually abuse each other and participating in beatings.
In a separate case, Bojadzic was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2013 for the murders of Croat civilians and soldiers in the village of Trusina, near Konjic.
