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Borislav Pjano (on the right) and counsels Anja Loga and Milenko Vojo Radovic. Photo: BIRN BiH

The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo has delivered a second-instance verdict confirming the acquittal of Bosnian Serb wartime fighters Spomenko Novovic and Borislav Pjano and rejecting a prosecution appeal as unfounded.

Under the first-instance verdict handed down in July last year, Novovic and Pjano were acquitted of involvement in detaining, inhumanely mistreating, robbing and killing Bosniak civilians in the villages of Dragocava, Sube and Potpece from April to September 1992.

They were cleared of having committed the acts of persecution during a widespread and systematic attack by Bosnian Serb military, police and paramilitary units, of which they were members.

The second-instance verdict cannot be appealed.

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