4. January 2021.
The UN court in The Hague has rejected a request for early release from former Bosnian Serb Army unit commander Dragoljub Kunarac, who was convicted of multiple rape and the enslavement of two women.
City: Foca
30. December 2020.
Borislav Pjano and Spomenko Novovic were charged with involvement in the illegal detentions and killings of Bosniak civilians in the Foca area of eastern Bosnia during the war in 1992.
21. December 2020.
The prosecution called on the Bosnian court to increase former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Sasa Curcic’s five-year sentence for raping a Bosniak woman during the war in 1992 in the Foca area.
16. December 2020.
Spomenko Novovic and Borislav Pjano were arrested on suspicion that they committed crimes against humanity, including the murders of Bosniak civilians, in the Foca area during the war in 1992.
3. December 2020.
The first-instance chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has sentenced Radovan Paprica and Slavko Ognjenovic to eight years in prison each for the crime of rape in Miljevina, near Foca, in 1992.
14. September 2020.
Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Sasa Curcic was sentenced to five years in prison for raping a Bosniak woman during the war in 1992 in the Foca area.
24. July 2020.
Former Bosnian Serb Army serviceman Sasa Curcic’s defence called for him to be cleared of raping and sexually abusing a Bosniak woman in the south-eastern town of Foca during wartime in 1992.
3. April 2020.
The Bosnian state court has asked Interpol to issue ‘red notices’ calling on countries worldwide to detain three Bosnian Serb suspects wanted for wartime crimes including murder and ethnic cleansing.
1. April 2020.
The Bosnian Constitutional Court rejected an appeal by Zarko Vukovic, a former Bosnian Serb Army soldier who was sentenced to seven years in prison for repeatedly raping a woman in Foca in 1992.
Bosnia’s Constitutional Court said that it has rejected Zarko Vukovic’s appeal against his conviction, describing as unfounded his claim that his right to a fair trial was violated.
The court’s decision, made on March 26, said that “nothing points to a violation of the right to a fair trial”, and that the way the facts and evidence in the Vukovic case were assessed “does not give the impression of arbitrariness”.
Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Vukovic was found guilty of repeatedly raping a woman in Foca in eastern Bosnia and sentenced to seven years in prison.
Vukovic forced the victim into the basement of her house and raped her several times from April to August 1992, the verdict said.
He appealed against the verdict but the state court’s appeals chamber rejected his plea and upheld the conviction in January 2018.
23. December 2019.
Former fighters Radovan Paprica and Slavko Ognjenovic went on trial in Sarajevo for committing a crime against humanity by raping a woman in a village in the Foca area in 1992. Radovan Paprica, alias Papro, and Slavko Ognjenovic, alias Macak, went on trial at the Bosnian state court on Monday for raping a woman in the village of Miljevina, near Foca, on June 9, 1992.
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