Testifying in defence of Veselko Raguz at the trial for crimes in Stolac and Capljina, witnesses say that neither the indictee nor his soldiers came to places where the civilian population was in July 1993.
Prosecution and defence appealed against the six-year sentence handed down to Bosnian Croat soldier Drazen Mikulic for abusing a prisoner and drinking his blood at the Dretelj camp in 1993.
At the trial for crimes committed in Dretelj, the witness for the Prosecution said he did not remember the events related to defendants and added that during the investigation the prosecutor led him to responses.
Testifying in defence of Veselko Raguz at the trial for crimes in Stolac and Capljina, witnesses say that, being members of a unit commanded by the indictee, they stayed in their zone of responsibility only and did not participated in the arrest of Bosniak men in July 1993.
During the continuation of the trial for crimes in Stolac and Capljina, a Defence witness says that Kostana Hospital, where men were held in detention, was not in the zone of responsibility of the unit commanded by indictee Veselko Raguz, i.e. the Fourth Battalion with Knez Domagoj Brigade of the Croatian Defence Council, HVO.
Testifying at the trial of former members of the Croatian Defence Forces, HOS, a court expert in neuro-psychiatry says that Toni Raic is capable of testifying before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
As the trial for crimes in Stolac and Capljina continues, two witnesses testifying in defence of indictee Veselko Raguz say that the indictee was not present in Aladinici village, Stolac municipality on July 13, 1993.
A witness at the trial of five Croatian Defence Forces fighters for war crimes at the Dretelj detention camp in southern Bosnia in 1992 said she was raped and sexually abused while held captive.
Mijo Banovic and Gojko Granic appear before the Cantonal Court in Mostar and plead not guilty of the charges that they committed crimes in Dretelj, Capljina municipality, while indictee Ado Alagic fails to appear at the hearing.