Ibro Merkez, a police chief in the Bosnian town of Gorazde during wartime, was sentenced to two years in prison for unlawfully detaining and mistreating Serb civilians in 1992.
The state court in Sarajevo on Friday found Ibro Merkez guilty, as the former chief of the police’s Public Security Station in Gorazde, of unlawfully detaining Serb civilians and treating them in inhumanely manner between the middle of July 1992 and August 4 the same year.