The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina confirms a first instance verdict, under which Zurahid Mujcinovic was sentenced to eight years in prison for crimes committed in Srebrenik.
During an appeals session held before the Supreme Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, FBiH, in the case against three indictees charged with crimes in Srebrenik, the Prosecution calls for a longer sentence, while the Defence teams propose a verdict of acquittal or new trial.
Testifying at the trial of Zemir Kovacevic, who is charged with crimes in Sijekovac, a protected prosecution witness recalls an attack on the village in March 1992, when several people were killed.
As the trial of Oliver Krsmanovic for crimes in Visegrad continues, a State Prosecution witness says that uniformed and armed men took a certain number of passengers from a bus near Mioce village, Rudo municipality.
Meddzida Kreso, President of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, says that, from the very beginning the Court has advocated for treating war-crimes and organised crimes cases as public interest cases, but the Agency for Protection of Personal Data of Bosnia and Herzegovina insisted on an opposite stand.
The trial of Oliver Krsmanovic for crimes in Visegrad has been postponed, because none of the seven State Prosecution witnesses, who were invited to the hearing, appeared.
The Hague Tribunal has wholly or partly paid for the defence of most of the suspects tried for wartime violations, but cannot reveal the amount of money actually spent.
In an appeal against the verdict in the case of Zurahid Mujcinovic for crimes committed in Srebrenik, a Defence Counsel has asked that the accused be acquitted or a new trial set, stressing that the accused is the victim of a rigged investigation and that he was never in the Youth Centre in Rapatnica nor did he torture the detainees.
In the trial of Oliver Krsmanovic for crimes in Visegrad, witness Hilmija Alihodzic stated that his brother was one of civilians from Sjeverin in Serbia who were abducted from the bus and have been unaccounted for ever since.
A former prison guard was sentenced to a year and a half in prison for war crimes against Yugoslav Army detainees in the Bosnian city of Tuzla in 1992.