State prosecution witnesses testifying at the Mile Puljic trial described the killing of Heliodrom camp detainees who were brought to Santiceva Street in Mostar by Croatian Defense Council soldiers and forced to work.
A witness testifying at the trial of three Territorial Defense fighters charged with war crimes in Srebrenik said Rapatnica served as a military detention unit and that the Territorial Defense headquarters in the area did not disclose the number of detainees they had.
After the defense teams in the Adil Vojic and Bekir Mesic trial finished their evidentiary hearings, the trial chamber said they would ask the injured party in the case to testify again.
The trial of Bosniak wartime commander Naser Oric for crimes against Serb prisoners of war in the Srebrenica and Bratunac areas will begin on January 26 next year.
The Bosnian state court’s appeals chamber held a hearing to reconsider the verdict in the Indira Kameric case. Kameric was sentenced to three years in prison for crimes against civilians in Bosanski Brod.
State prosecution witnesses described the poor living conditions at the VIZ prison in Ljubuski, where they were held from May 1993 to March 1994. They testified at the trial of seven former prison managers and guards charged with the abuse of former prisoners.
A protected state prosecution witness testifying at the Jovan Popovic trial said he and the defendant lived in the same neighbourhood in Visegrad. He said he didn’t see Popovic in their neighbourhood at the beginning of the war.
The first prosecution witness to testify at the trial of former VIZ prison managers and guards said he was held in various facilities in Herzegovina during his ten months of detention.
Presenting its case before the appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court, Slavko Savic’s defense called for a repeal of his guilty verdict. Savic was sentenced to eight years in prison for wartime rape in the municipality of Vogosca.