The verdict in the retrial of Ilija Pavic will be announced by the Supreme Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Thursday, November 26. Pavic has been charged with war crimes in Livno.
A state prosecution witness testifying at the trial of three former Bosniak police officials said her mother told her she’d been wounded in the leg during her detention in Jasenica and that a man known as Apica shot her. The defendants have been charged with war crimes in the Bosanska Krupa area.
Military expert Bozidar Forca testified at the trial of Ostoja Stanisic and Marko Milosevic, former members of the Bosnian Serb Army who’ve been charged with genocide in Srebrenica. Forca said the defendants were not ordered to capture, kill or bury captives in the municipality of Zvornik in 1995.
Radivoje Soldo was sentenced to five years in prison for unlawfully detaining and repeatedly raping a Bosniak woman inside a Bosnian Serb Army camp in the Konjic area in 1992.
A state prosecution witness testifying at the Zeljko Stanarevic trial said the defendant and a military security officer took away prisoners who were detained in the IMP company warehouse in the village of Ripac.
The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina repealed a portion of the verdict in the Velibor Bogdanovic trial, specifically the section on the application of law. After this decision, the prosecution and the defense presented their appeals related to Bogdanovic’s sentencing at the appeals chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Civil sector groups from six Western Balkans countres urged their political leaders to secure freedom of expression and media independence, also calling for more of a role in their countries' EU integration processes.