Lamija Grebo, Author at Detektor

Bosnia’s judicial overseer, the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council, must be reformed, experts argued after a report for the European Commission said the country’s judiciary was in crisis and unable to cope with serious crime and corruption cases.

Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Tadija Mitrovic was charged with crimes against humanity for killing a Bosniak civilian during an attack on a village in the Bratunac area in May 1992. The Bosnian state prosecution said on Monday that it has issued an indictment charging ex-soldier Tadija Mitrovic with participating in the persecution of the Bosniak civilian population during a widespread and systematic attack by the Bosnian Serb Army and police in the Bratunac area during wartime.

The Bosnian state prosecution filed an extradition request for war crimes suspect Osman Osmanovic, who was arrested in Serbia for allegedly assaulting and abusing captured Serb civilians and prisoners of war in 1992. The state prosecution in Sarajevo asked the Bosnian Justice Ministry on Wednesday to send a request for Bosniak ex-fighter Osman Osmanovic’s extradition from Serbia.

Bosnia has halted its efforts to extradite former Bosnian Croat fighter Robert Kovacic from the United States to face war crimes charges after the investigation was discontinued because the victim and witness have died.

Miladin Trifunovic, former commander of the Vogosca Brigade of the Bosnian Serb Army, was arrested on suspicion of committing a crime against humanity against Bosniak detainees in 1992. Bosnia’s State Investigation and Protection Agency arrested Miladin Trifunovic on Wednesday on suspicion that he was responsible for the abuse and killing of Bosniak detainees in the Vogosca and Ilijas areas during wartime in 1992.

Interpol issued a ‘red notice’ for the arrest of Esed Abdagic, a former soldier who is charged with killing a prisoner of war in 1993 and is now believed to live in the United States.

Former Bosnian Serb soldier Sretko Pavic appealed against the verdict convicting him of detaining and killing five Bosniak civilians, all members of the same family, near Prijedor in 1992. Sretko Pavic, a former member of the Volarska Company with the Sixth Ljubija Battalion of the Bosnian Serb Army, asked the appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Thursday to quash the sentence convicting him of wartime crimes or order a retrial.

The prosecution appealed against the acquittal of former policeman Slavko Milovanovic, who was cleared of ordering the burning of Bosniaks’ homes during an attack on the village of Resagici near Srebrenica in May 1992. The Bosnian state prosecution launched an appeal on Tuesday calling for the verdict which cleared Slavko Milovanovic of committing crimes against humanity in the village of Resagici in May 1992 to be quashed and a retrial ordered.

Former policemen Jovan Kusic and Branislav Vukovic were charged with illegally detaining, abusing and torturing Bosniak civilians in the town of Pale in 1992. The Bosnian state prosecution on Friday indicted Jovan Kusic, alias Joja, and Branislav Vukovic, alias Bato, for having participated in the unlawful detention, torture, abuse and beating of Bosniak civilians who were detained in a gym at the Cultural Centre in Pale in May and June 1992.

Kahro Vejzovic’s defence appealed to the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Friday to revise the verdict convicting him of torturing captured Serb civilians in Stupari between June and September 1992 and acquit him of all the charges.

Lamija Grebo

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