Police arrested former world champion boxer Mensur Peljto for alleged crimes against civilians and prisoners of war in his hometown Brcko during the 1990s conflict, BIRN was told.
Testifying at the trial of five former members of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ABiH, a Defence witness denies the allegation that he was with indictee Nihad Bojadzic on the territory of Trusina village, Konjic municipality, when crimes were committed there.
Goran Popovic, who is charged with crimes in Visegrad, was sent from liberty to a detention unit following the examination of the first State Prosecution witness.
Testifying at the trial for crimes in Kladanj, a State Prosecution witness denies the allegation that he participated, together with indictee Safet Mujcinovic, in the unlawful arrest of Milos Stanisic in June 1992.
Testifying at the trial of Goran Popovic for crimes in Visegrad, the first State Prosecution witness says that he was arrested at the beginning of June 1992 and that he was then held in detention for more than two years.
Testifying at the trial for crimes in Sarajevo, witness Dzevad Topic, known as Topa, says that he assumes that indictee Ramiz Avdovic was on duty on the fifth floor of the Central Prison, where Serb detainees were held.
Novak Djukic, convicted of ordering Bosnian Serb artillery to shell the town of Tuzla in 1995, leaving 71 people dead, had his prison sentence reduced from 25 to 20 years.
The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BiH, files a custody order motion for Zeljko Stanarevic, who is suspected of crimes in the Bihac area, due to a risk that he might flee and influence witnesses. The Defence objects to the motion, requesting the Court to release him to liberty under prohibiting measures.
The first witness at the trial of four former policemen accused of abusing non-Serb prisoners in the south-eastern town of Bileca in 1992 said that one of the defendants assaulted him.
Defence lawyers for Nihad Bojadzic, former deputy commander of the Bosnian Armys Zulfikar Squad, accused of a deadly attack on the village of Trusina, claimed the judges were biased.