Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Constitutional Court reject former Bosnian Army’s soldiers Enes Curic’s appeal against his conviction for wartime crimes against Croat civilian prisoners in Bijelo Polje near Mostar in 1993.
The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has rendered decisions rejecting appeals filed by Ibrahim Demirovic, who was sentenced to 13 years, and Habib Copelj, who was sentenced to five years in prison for crimes against Serb civilians in the Mostar area in 1993.
Three former Bosnian Army servicemen were sentenced to a total of 17 years in prison for crimes against Croat civilian detainees who were held at a school near Mostar in 1993.
The Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Friday sentenced Enes Curic to five years in prison and Ibrahim Demirovic to ten years for taking part in the illegal detention and inhumane treatment of Bosnian Croat civilians in Bijelo Polje, as well as making them do forced labour, while Habib Copelj was sentenced to two years for abusing the detained civilians.
At the trial of five defendants charged with crimes in the Mostar area in 1993, the state prosecution read a witness statement on the mistreatment of detainees in Meke and Potoci.
A state prosecution witness testifying at the trial of five former Bosnian Army members said he was ordered to perform forced labour while being detained in a school in Potoci near Mostar.
A statement by a deceased witness was read at the trial of five former members of the Bosnian Army charged with crimes in the Mostar area in 1993. In the statement, the witness said defendant Enes Curic was a detention camp manager who sometimes exempted prisoners from forced labour.
Testifying at the trial of five former members of the Bosnian Army charged with war crimes in Mostar, a medical expert said a group of prosecution witnesses are in poor health and might find it difficult to testify.
Testifying at the trial of five former members of the Bosnian Army charged with committing crimes in the Mostar area in 1993, a state prosecution witness said a protected witness known as B was taken out of a school building used as a detention facility several times and raped.
A state prosecution witness testifying at the trial of five former members of the Bosnian Army accused of war crimes in Mostar said he was beaten several times by Bosniak forces in a school in Potoci.
A state prosecution witness testifying at the trial of five former members of the Bosnian Army said she and other civilian prisoners depended on defendant Enes Curic during their detention in Meke in the municipality of Mostar. She said Curic used to bring the prisoners food.