The Supreme Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina has reduced the sentence against Perica Adzic by a year and four months. He has now been sentenced to two years and eight months in prison.
The Supreme Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina repealed a verdict which sentenced Hajrudin Dedic to six years in prison. Dedic, a former police officer in Breza, was found guilty of torturing and treating civilians in Breza in an inhumane manner.
The defense of Hajrudin Dedic has called upon the Supreme Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina to either acquit Dedic or repeal the verdict against him. The state prosecution called on the court to reject the appeal and to uphold the guilty verdict handed down by the cantonal court of Zenica in October 2014.
Former policeman Hajrudin Dedic was jailed for six years for illegally detaining and beating Serb civilians in the village of Duzice in the Breza municipality, causing two deaths.
Following the presentation of closing statements, the Zenica Cantonal Court schedules the pronouncement of a verdict against Hajrudin Dedic, former policeman from Breza, for October 8.
Former policeman Hajrudin Dedic, accused of detaining and beating Serb civilians in Breza in 1992, said that he knew nothing about the crimes before the investigation started.
Testifying before the Cantonal Court in Zenica, Semsudin Softic says that he did not see indictee Hajrudin Dedic in the premises of the police station in Breza on June 10, 1992, when, according to the charges, he participated in beating of arrested civilians.
As the trial of Hajrudin Dedic before the Zenica Cantonal Court continues, Defence witnesses say that it is not known to them that civilians were mistreated in the Police Station in Breza in 1992.