Former Bosnian Serb fighter Radomir Susnjar, who is on trial for killing 57 Bosniaks in a house that was set on fire in Visegrad in 1992, asked for an acquittal, telling the court he was innocent.
After repeated delays caused by another defendant’s health problems, the trial of Miroslav Kraljevic, the Serb mayor of the Bosnian town of Vlasenica, who is accused of wartime crimes against Bosniak civilians, will start next month.
The Appeals Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has reduced the prison sentences for four Bosnian Serb former soldiers to a total of 59 years for participation in the murder of 28 civilians on Mount Borje, near the town of Teslic, in 1992.
Under a first instance verdict in July last year, Dragan Marjanovic, Sasa Gavranovic, Vitomir Devic and Zoran Sljuka were each sentenced to 17 years in prison for the murders.
The court confirmed the seven-year prison sentence handed down to former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Milomir Davidovic for committing a crime against humanity by raping a woman in Foca in July 1992.
The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court on Friday upheld the verdict convicting Milomir Davidovic of raping a Bosniak woman in Foca during the war in July 1992 and sentencing him to seven years in prison.
The remains of at least two people, believed to be Serbs killed in the 1992-95 war, were exhumed from a hidden grave in the Jajce area in central Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic appealed against a decision by the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals to end a pilot project that allowed Hague detainees to use online video-telephone technology.
The Bosnian appeals court upheld a verdict convicting four former Bosnian Army military policemen of physically and sexually abusing Croat civilians at a detention facility in the village of Kruscica near Vitez in 1993.
The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Friday upheld the verdict sentencing ex-soldiers Minet Akeljic, Saban Haskic, Senad Bilal and Hazim Patkovic to a total of 27 years in prison for crimes against civilians in the village of Kruscica in 1993.
The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals has ended a pilot project that allowed Hague detainees like Radovan Karadzic to use online video-telephone technology, citing security risks.
Former Croatian Defence Council fighter Ivica Markovic, who was on trial for war crimes against civilian detainees in the Stolac area in 1993, has died.
The remains of six people, believed to be Bosniaks who were killed during the 1992-95 war, have been exhumed from a mass grave at Hrtar Grad near Visegrad.