Bosnian Wartime Detention Camp Guard’s Sentence Reduced

The state court’s appeals chamber on Thursday cut Ivan Medic’s prison sentence from 14 to 12 years and overturned part of an acquittal verdict that had initially freed another guard at the wartime Dretelj camp in Capljina, Tonco Rajic.

Rajic will now face a new trial.

In November 2017, the state court convicted Medic of participating in the inhumane treatment of Serb civilian prisoners and of forcing them to have sexual intercourse with each other.

He was jailed for seven-and-a-half years for these offences, but because he had been sentenced to seven years for war crimes in another case, a cumulative sentence of 14 years was pronounced.

Rajic meanwhile was initially acquitted in November 2017 of war crimes against civilians held at the Dretelj camp.