Bosnia Reduces Sentence of Radovan Karadzic’s Ex-Advisor

A Bosnian court reduced the sentence of Jovan Tintor, former adviser to Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who was convicted for the unlawful detentions and abuse of Bosniak and Croat prisoners in the Vogosca area in 1992.

The second instance chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has reduced Tintor’s sentence from 11 to ten years in prison for war crimes committed during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, BIRN has learned.

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Emina Dizdarević Tahmiščija

5. March 2019. | 11:09

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Tintor’s defense told BIRN that the Bosnian state prosecutor’s appeal had been rejected, while the defense appeal had been partially upheld by the second instance verdict.

In August 2018, the court convicted Tintor of responsibility for unlawful detentions, torture, beatings and making people do forced labour. It said the crimes were committed against a large number of Bosniak and Croat prisoners in several detention camps in Vogosca.

The judge in the trial said that Tintor had knowledge of the plans to detain Bosniaks in Vogosca, and had described the territory as “Serb land”.

The verdict also said that Tintor set up the Bunker prison camp and had authority to decide who would be detained.

He was also responsible for the detention of prisoners in the Nakina Garage and Planjina Kuca detention facilities, and for the inhumane conditions there, the verdict found.

However, he was acquitted on one count of the killings of 13 prisoners who were taken from the Bunker camp and never seen again.

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