Case: Hadzic and Hodzic

The Brcko Elementary Court convicted Galib Hadzic and Nijaz Hodzic for crimes against Bosnian Serb prisoners and civilians in 1992.

After the Defence of Galib Hadzic and Nijaz Hodzic presented their closing statements, requesting the Court to acquit the indictees of the charges for crimes in Brcko, the Trial Chamber schedules the pronouncement of the verdict for Friday, October 31.

The Defence of Galib Hadzic and Nijaz Hodzic continue presenting evidence before the Basic Court in Brcko District by presenting more than 100 pieces of material evidence.

At the trial for the crimes committed in Brcko, the witness for the Defence, Mirsad Haseljic, said he did not know how the defendant, Nijaz Hodzic, behaved at the time of the attack on Bukvik and nearby villages in September 1992.

As the trial of Galib Hadzic and Nijaz Hodzic continues, two Defence witnesses say that it is not known to them that indictee Hadzic used force when examining prisoners of war in 1992.

As the trial of Galib Hadzic and Nijaz Hodzic before the Brcko District Basic Court continues, the Prosecution reads statements given by five deceased witnesses, who spoke about the examination and mistreatment of prisoners in Bukvik village in 1992.

Testifying at the trial of Galib Hadzic and Nijaz Hodzic, who are charged with crimes in the Brcko area, Prosecution witnesses Bozo Simic and Marko Cvjetinovic speak about their detention in Gornji Rahic.

Brcko District Prosecution witnesses say, at the trial of Galib Hadzic and Nijaz Hodzic, that they were beaten up and examined by several members of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina from that area, including the indictees, several times during their 20-day detention in Gornji Rahic in the autumn of 1992.