The state court has reduced the sentence against Radomir Vukovic from 31 to 20 years in prison by applying the criminal code of the former Yugoslavia, which allows for more lenient sentencing. Vukovic was found guilty of participating in the Srebrenica genocide.
State prosecution witnesses testified at the trial of former Bosnian Croat prison managers and guards charged with war crimes in Ljubuski. The witnesses described the poor living conditions and abuse they were exposed to during their detention in Ljubuski.
Defense witnesses testifying at the trial three former Bosniak military policemen charged with crimes in Srebrenik said defendant Fikret Smajlovic was not responsible for a detention facility in Rapatnica.
The announcement of the verdict in the Dzevad Salcin trial has been postponed by the Bosnian state court. A new date will be set at a later stage. Salcin has been charged with committing war crimes on Mount Igman.
The beginning a corruption trial before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has been postponed again because defendants Senad Sabic and Ramo Brkic failed to appear.
A statement by an injured party was read at the trial of three former Bosniak military police officers. The injured party described how the was tortured and abused by Bosniak forces during his detention in Rapatnica in 1992.
Former Serbian state security officers Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic pleaded not guilty at the UN court in The Hague at their retrial for war crimes in Bosnia and Croatia.
At an appeals hearing at the Bosnian state court, both the prosecution and the defense proposed that Radomir Vukovic be resentenced according to the Criminal Code of Yugoslavia, which hands down more favourable verdicts for guilty parties in war crimes.
The third instance chamber at the Bosnian state court found Veselko Raguz not guilty of war crimes in Dretelj, near Capljina. The chamber, however, upheld a verdict sentencing Ivo Raguz to three years in prison for the same crimes.