A witness at ex-jail warden Branko Vlaco’s trial for abusing prisoners at Bosnian Serb detention centres in Vogosca near Sarajevo said the defendant attacked him while intoxicated.
Defence attorneys of convicts sentenced for genocide and war crimes before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina announce that proceedings will be renewed in many more cases due to the wrong application of the Criminal Code.
The renewal of war-crimes trials due to the wrong application of laws will require huge financial resources and cause a backlog in the State Courts work on new cases.
The trial of Goran Saric, who is charged with genocide in Srebrenica in July 1995, begins with reading of the indictment and presentation of introductory statements by the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Defence.
The trial of Goran Saric, who is charged with genocide in Srebrenica in July 1995, begins with reading of the indictment and presentation of introductory statements by the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Defence. - See more at: http://www.justice-report.com/en/articles/trial-of-goran-saric-begins#sthash.SmrI2ou4.dpuf
Defence attorneys, representing the now-free convicts who were initially sentenced for having assisted in genocide in Srebrenica, still do not know whether they will propose new pieces of evidence at the new trials.
The release to liberty of ten war crimes and genocide convicts has brought war-crimes victims into a situation whereby they have become victims of the system nearly 20 years after the war. In order to prevent that from happening, they call on the judges of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina to resign.
The literal renewal of dozens of war crimes trial because of wrong application of criminal codes could block the work of the Bosnian State Court on new war crimes cases.
Former Bosnian Croat military policeman Frano Vulic was sentenced to ten years in prison for war crimes against civilian prisoners in the Dretelj detention camp near Capljina in 1993..
U nastavku suđenja za zločine počinjene u Vogošći, svjedok Tužilaštva BiH je ispričao da je čuo kako izvjesni Mongo maltretira i tjera zatvorenike da se oralno zadovoljavaju.
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The trial of Aleksandar Cvetkovic, who is charged with genocide in Srebrenica, begins with reading of the indictment and presentation of introductory statements by the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Defence.