Jail sentences handed down to wartime fighters Senad Dzananovic and Edin Gadzo for unlawfully detaining and assaulting Serbs during the siege of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo in 1992 were confirmed after an appeal.
The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina sentenced Senad Dzananovic to 11 and Edin Gadzo to five years in prison for crimes against Serb civilians detained in Alipasino Polje, Sarajevo – though they may appeal the verdict.
Wartime fighter Edin Gadzo’s lawyer said he should be acquitted of unlawfully detaining and killing Serbs in Sarajevo in 1992 during the siege of the Bosnian capital.
Wartime fighter Senad Dzananovic’s lawyer said he should be acquitted of unlawfully detaining, raping and killing Serbs in Sarajevo in 1992 during the siege of the city.
Former Bosnian Territorial Defence force member Jasmin Erovic was cleared of raping a Serb woman in an apartment in Sarajevo in 1992.
The Bosnian state court on Friday acquitted Erovic of taking a woman from a basement where she was being held with other Bosnian Serbs to an abandoned apartment in Sarajevo and raping her.