The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina terminates custody for Nedzad Hodzic, who is charged with crimes on Mount Igman and in Trusina village, near Konjic, after four and a half years.
Dragan Sekaric, a former territorial defence fighter and member of the Avengers paramilitary unit also pleaded not guilty on Thursday to killings, torture, rapes and other inhuman acts in 1992 and 1993.
Prosecutor Gordana Tadic has been appointed Chief of the Special War Crimes Section of the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina after Vesna Budimir resigned from that position.
Sarajevo prosecutors said they couldnt ask Belgrade to launch two cases against Bosnian Serbs accused of involvement in the Srebrenica massacres because they forgot to get all the witness statements.
Of the 74 people convicted by the Hague Tribunal of wartime crimes in the former Yugoslavia, 49 of them are already out of jail, most of them after being granted early release.
During an appeals hearing held before the Supreme Court of the federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina the quashing of a first instance verdict, under which Ratko Lavrnic was acquitted of charges for crimes against civilians in Kljuc in 1993, is requested.
As the trial for crimes in Visegrad continues, Defence witnesses say that indictee Predrag Milisavljevic was a member of the reserve police forces and that, following the departure of the Uzice Corps in May 1992, he joined a special unit of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS.
An order from the Minister of Internal Affairs came, saying that the Company should be deployed to Bratunac and put under Borovcanins command, said witness Luka Bogdanovic, who was Chief of the Police Section with the Public Safety Center in Zvornik at that time.