The Zeljko Stanarevic trial began with a reading of the indictment and the presentation of introductory statements by the Bosnian state prosecution. Stanarevic has been charged with crimes against humanity in the Bihac area.
The Bosnian state prosecution called upon the Supreme Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina to order a longer sentence against Safet Kovacevic for war crimes committed in Bihac and Cazin, and to rescind the release of two other defendants. The defense teams claim the appeals are unfounded, and requested that the court reject the appeals.
The Bosnian state prosecution presented evidence on the medical treatment of a protected witness known as ST-1 at the Adil Vojic and Bekir Mesic trial.
The trial chamber decided to exclude the public from a hearing in which a protected state prosecution witness was expected to testify against two former Bosnian Army soldiers accused of rape in Bihac.
The Bosnian state prosecution has proposed that the Zeljko Stanarevic trial be postponed for one month, as it expects that Serbia will extradite a suspected accomplice in the case.
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.
Investigator Slavisa Lucic was the first prosecution witness at the trial of former Bosnian Army soldiers Adil Vojic and Bekir Mesic. Lucic determined during his investigation that the defendants had forced a man to rape his mother.
Former fighters Bora Kuburic and Radmila Banjac were sentenced to four years in prison each for torturing a captured Bosnian Army nurse in the summer of 1992 in Bosanska Krupa.
The cantonal court of Bihac has sentenced former Bosnian Army member Dzevad Mahmutovic to one year in prison for participating in the abuse of prisoners of war in March 1995.