Custody for Slavko Lalovic Terminated

“The Appellate Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina terminated the custody order motion for Lalovic, which was rendered following the pronouncement of the first instance verdict, and ordered prohibiting measures instead,” the Public Information Section of the State Court said.

Under the first instance verdict pronounced by the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in August this year, Lalovic, former member of reserve forces with the Public Safety Station in Kalinovik, was sentenced to five years in prison for having assisted in the rape and applied intimidation measures against civilians, who were held in the “Miladin Radojevic” school building, where he worked as prison guard.

The first instance verdict says that Lalovic abused prisoners by prohibiting them from going to toilet or having access to water and threatening them by saying that he would kill them unless they gave him their money and other valuable possessions.

At a hearing held on September 20 this year the Defence of Lalovic called on the Appellate Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina to annul the custody order rendered by the first instance Chamber, saying that it was “unlawful”.

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