Husein Mujanovic’s sentence for abusing Serb civilian prisoners held in inhumane conditions in a Bosnian Army military prison in Hrasnica near Sarajevo in 1992 was reduced to four-and-a-half years on appeal.
Women in Black’s office in Belgrade was vandalised with red paint the day after the Serbian peace group was involved in events to commemorate the anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide.
Four convicted war criminals have been involved in campaigning for the upcoming elections in Serbia, all of them supporting parties in the governing coalition, the Youth Initiative for Human Rights said in a new report.
The Women in Black organisation’s office in Belgrade was sprayed with slogans describing Ratko Mladic as a hero, as disputes over graffiti hailing the Bosnian Serb war criminal continued in Serbia.
Belgrade Appeals Court ordered the release of Edin Vranj, a former senior Bosnian police official whose arrest in Serbia on war crimes charges sparked angry reactions from ministers in his home country.
A former inmate of a prison in the Brcko area of Bosnia in 1992 told the trial of an ex-soldier accusing of assaulting detainees that he did not see any of his fellow inmates being beaten or tortured.
Novak Djukic, who has already been convicted in Bosnia of the 1995 Tuzla massacre, needs further psychiatric treatment and is not well enough to participate in his trial in Serbia until September next year, medical experts said.
The Serbian court has so far not awarded any compensation during trials to survivors of wartime sexual violence - and one rape victim has waived her right to damages because she feared losing her anonymity if she filed a civil suit.
Rajko Kusic, the former commander of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Rogatica Brigade, is accused of involvement in more than 150 killings as well as forced relocations and unlawful detentions.
Svetozar Andric, a wartime Bosnian Serb Army brigade commander who was accused of expelling Bosniaks from the town of Zvornik, was officially confirmed as a member of the Serbian parliament after the recent elections.