Appeal judges at the Bosnian state court upheld the verdict convicting five former policemen of torturing Bosniak civilian detainees in the north-eastern town of Janja from 1992 to 1994.
At the trial of ten former policemen for wartime crimes in the town of Janja, a prosecution witness said that his father up was beaten up by the police in November 1993, and later died.
Former Bosnian Serb Army serviceman Brane Planojevic went on trial for the murder and torture of civilians and prisoners of war at a detention facility in Rogatica from 1992 to 1995.
The trial of Brane Planojevic opened on Thursday at the state court in Sarajevo with the reading of the indictment charging the ex-soldier with murdering, torturing and assisting in the rape of prisoners held at a detention centre at the Rasadnik farm in Rogatica.
Witnesses told the trial of former Croatian Defence Council fighter Almaz Nezirovic, accused of abusing prisoners in Derventa and Bosanski Brod, that the defendant beat them with a rubber baton.
The Bosnian state court has confirmed an indictment against Zoran Bogdanovic, Milan Djokic, Ljubisa Ikic and Branislav Trisic, charging them with crimes against humanity committed in the Janja area in the municipality of Bijeljina from 1992 to 1994.
The state prosecution has filed an indictment against four suspects, charging them with crimes against humanity in the Janja area in the municipality of Bijeljina from 1992 to 1994.
Four former Serb police officers were arrested on suspicion that they took part in the illegal arrests and abuse of Bosniak civilians in the north-eastern Janja area from 1992 to 1994.