Bosniak lawmaker Semsudin Mehmedovic has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in war crimes against Serb civilians, while the state prosecutor has been accused of obstructing the investigation.
After the Bosnian State Protection and Investigation agency Arrested lawmaker Semsudin Mehmedovic, the Bosnian prosecution confirmed that the arrest was not carried out with its approval.
The High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council, HJPC, concludes that courts and prosecutions are not obliged to anonymise their acts, but they should take care of the balance between public and private interests.
A decision rendered by the European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg by no means represents a revision of war-crimes verdicts pronounced by the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Some Bosnian experts believe that the Hague Tribunals decision to reinstate a genocide charge against Radovan Karadzic was just, while others claim it was politically motivated.
More than 1,500 people have signed a petition aimed at stopping the current practice of withholding information from trials for war crimes and other trials, which are of public interest.
The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina orders one-month custody for Josip Tolic, who is suspected of crimes against the civilian population in the Odzak and Brod areas.
Testifying in defence of Veselko Raguz at the trial for crimes in Stolac and Capljina, witnesses say that, being members of a unit commanded by the indictee, they stayed in their zone of responsibility only and did not participated in the arrest of Bosniak men in July 1993.