Two former members of the Bosnian Armys Fifth Corps were sentenced to three-and-a-half years in jail each for the abuse of prisoners detained at a barracks in Bihac.
Former Bosniak soldiers facing trial at Bosnias appeals chamber have requested that the court pronounce them not guilty. Mehura Selimovic, Adil Ruznic, and Emir Mustafic stand accused of abusing prisoners of war at several detention sites in Krajina during the Bosnian war.
Former soldiers Mehura Selimovic, Adil Ruznic and Emir Mustafic are accused of physically and mentally abusing Serb detainees in Bosnias northern Krajina region from 1994 to 1996.
The retrial of Mehura Selimovic, Adil Ruznic and Emir Mustafic, who are charged with crimes against the civilian population and prisoners of war in Krajina, is due to begin on February 12.
The Appellate Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina quashes a first instance verdict, under which Mehura Selimovic, Adil Ruznic and Emir Mustafic were sentenced to a total of 25 years in prison for war crimes committed in Krajina.
Ex-soldiers Mehura Selimovic, Adil Ruznic and Emir Mustafic appealed against a verdict sentencing them to a total of 25 years in prison abusing Serb prisoners in Bosanska Krajina.
On the second day of presentation of its closing statement at the trial for crimes in Bosnian Krajina the Defence of Adil Ruznic says that the indictee did not have competencies over the collection centers in Bihac, Cazin and Bosanski Petrovac and that he is not responsible for crimes committed in them.
A court expert in military issues says, at the trial for crimes committed in Bosnian Krajina, that indictees Mehura Selimovic and Adil Ruznic had a chance to see and prevent the violation of rights of prisoners of war.
At the continuing trial of three men accused of crimes in Bosanska Krajina, a witness for the state prosecution told the court of his capture and interrogation by the 5th Corps of the Army of BiH.
At the trial for crimes in Bosanska Krajina, witnesses of the Defence said that indictee Emir Mustafic was not a guard at the Adil Besic barracks in Bihac, adding that he was clerk.