The Appellate Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared at a status conference that the testimonies of a certain number of witnesses from the first instance procedure would be heard again at the retrial of Veselko and Ivo Raguz. A new trial will begin on March 25.
The proceedings against Marinko Bjelica will take place separately from the other defendants accused of committing crimes against civilians in Kalinovik. The trial chamber decided to conduct separate proceedings for Bjelica due to his poor health.
At the trial of Zaim Lalicic, a protected state prosecution witness known as S.M. told the court that Lalicic had raped her during her detention in the basement of an unfinished building.
At todays hearing of the Pero Radisic trial, Bosnias state court requested that the addresses of witnesses be verified in order to avoid postponing future hearings.
The Bosnian state prosecution has proposed that the Zeljko Stanarevic trial be postponed for one month, as it expects that Serbia will extradite a suspected accomplice in the case.