Former Bosnian Serb military leader, Ratko Mladic’s defence has appealed The Hague Tribunal decision not to grant him temporary release for medical treatment in Russia.
The state prosecution charged former police commander Bogdan Stevanovic with committing crimes against humanity against Bosniaks in the Skelani and Srebrenica areas in 1992.
The prosecution issued an indictment of Friday accusing Bogdan Stevanovic, the former commander of the Public Security Station in Skelani and a member of the Crisis Committee of the Serb municipality of Skelani, of assisting the commission of murders and ordering murders from May 1992 to the end of August that year.
Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Sasa Cvetkovic was charged with committing war crimes in Srebrenica and Bratunac in 1992, including the murder and rape of civilians.
The state court reduced former Bosnian Serb special policemen Dusko Jevic and Mendeljev Djuric’s Srebrenica genocide sentences to 20 years each because the wrong criminal code was used at their trial.
Prosecutors at the UN court objected to a request from Bosnian Serb ex-military commander Ratko Mladic for temporary release for medical treatment, arguing his health is stable and he might abscond.
Former Bosnian Serb Army officer Ostoja Stanisic was sentenced to 11 years in prison for assisting the genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995, but his deputy was acquitted.
Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic has asked for temporary release from detention in The Hague to go for treatment in Russia because of a “potentially life-threatening condition”.
Radovan Karadzic asked the UN court to reject a prosecution appeal to increase his sentence to life imprisonment and find him guilty of genocide in seven more Bosnian municipalities in 1992.
Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic filed a motion to the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Thursday, asking the UN war crimes court to throw out the prosecutors’ appeal.
In her closing statement, the defence lawyer for former Bosnian Serb soldier Sasa Curguz said he was not guilty of murders and torture in the Bihac area in 1992.
Presenting her closing statement at the state court in Sarajevo on Wednesday, Sasa Curguz’s defence lawyer Anja Loga said that the prosecution had neither proved that a widespread and systematic attack against civilians was conducted in the Bihac area in 1992 nor that the defendant’s actions were part of it.
A witness told the trial of Brcko’s wartime president, Djordje Ristanic, that the defendant came to free a prisoner from a military barracks in the town in 1992.
Testifying at the trial for crimes in Brcko, a witness said he heard Djordje Ristanic telling someone he had come to help him get out of the military barracks, where he was detained.