Bosnian Pleads Not Guilty to Fighting in Syria

Emir Alisic, who is accused of unlawfully forming and joining foreign paramilitary or parapolice groups, which operated as part of so-called Islamic State in Syria, pleaded not guilty at the Bosnian state court on June 23.

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Azra Husarić Omerović

23. june 2020. | 10:56

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Emir Ališić. Source: State Court BiH

“Honourable court, I am not guilty,” Alisic said.

He is changed with travelling from Bosnia and Herzegovina to Turkey in late 2013 and then illegally crossing into Syria, where he fought for so-called Islamic State as member of several armed groups.

The prosecution alleges that he was a member of Islamic State from 2013 to 2019, and was captured by Kurdish forces in early 2019 after the it collapsed.

Alisic was flown back to Bosnia and Herzegovina in December 2019 together with Jasmin Keserovic, Armen Dzelko, Senad Kasupovic, Hamza Labidi, Muharem Dunic and Milarem Berbic on suspicion of fighting in Syria for organisations that the United Nations has designated terrorist groups.

The trials of Dzelko, Kasupovic and Keserovic have already begun.

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