Zijad Hamzic, who was acquitted of wartime crimes against Serbs in the Kladanj area, is suing the state for 7,860 euros in compensation because he was put under house arrest and barred from travelling.
Kahro Vejzovic’s defence appealed to the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Friday to revise the verdict convicting him of torturing captured Serb civilians in Stupari between June and September 1992 and acquit him of all the charges.
Bosniak ex-policeman Kahro Vejzovic was convicted of violently assaulting Bosnian Serb civilian prisoners in the village of Stupari in 1992 and sentenced to six years in prison.
The acquittal of former policeman Kahro Vejzovic, who was cleared of physically assaulting Bosnian Serb civilians in the village of Stupari in 1992, was partially overturned on appeal and a retrial ordered.
The Bosnian state court found former policeman Kahro Vejzovic not guilty of torturing Serb civilian detainees in the village of Stupari in the Kladanj area in 1992.
The state court in Sarajevo on Friday acquitted Kahro Vejzovic of torturing detained Serb civilians in Stupari from June to September 1992.
A defense witness testified at the trial of Osman Gogic and six other defendants charged with war crimes in the Kladanj area. The witness confirmed that injured party Velimir Celic was in the village of Brloski Potok in June 1992. He said he didn’t know what happened to him when he went to his sister’s home.
Defendant Osman Gogic testified in his own defense at the trial of seven defendants charged with crimes in the Kladanj area. He denied knowing injured parties Velimir and Milos Celic. According to the charges against him, Gogic abused Velimir Celic at the public safety station in Kladanj in June 1992.
Testifying in defense of Nedzad Hodzic, witness Zdravko Martinovic said the defendant saved his life in August 1992. Martinovic said Hodzic intervened when his ID was being checked at a checkpoint near Djurdjevik in the municipality of Zivinice.
Testifying in defense of Nedzad Hodzic before the state court, Rado and Vojka Andric said the defendant helped them when they lived in a building protected by the police in Stupari in the municipality of Kladanj. They said they hadn’t heard that the defendant had been involved in any wrongdoing.
Defense witnesses testifying at the trial of eight defendants charged with war crimes in the Kladanj area said defendant Ramiz Halilovic helped persecuted Serb civilians.