Predrag Markocevic and Marinko Djuric, who were police officers in the town of Teslic during the war, were cleared of involvement in the illegal detention and killing of Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats in 1992.
Dragan Babic and Milivoje Maletic, who worked at a detention facility in the village of Pribinic in Serb-dominated Republika Srpska, were charged with involvement in killing six prisoners and abusing of dozens of others in 1992.
The Appeals Court in Belgrade reduced the sentence convicting former Bosnian Serb Army military policeman Radomir Kezunovic of war crimes from 14 years to five years.
Bosnia’s Constitutional Court rejected former Bosnian Serb Army military policeman Dragan Marjanovic’s appeal against the verdict convicting him of participating in the murders of 28 Bosniaks on Mount Borje near Teslic in 1992.
The Higher Court in Belgrade agreed to take over the case against wartime Bosnian Serb Army military police officer Dragomir Kezunovic, who was initially convicted in Bosnia of crimes against humanity.
The Bosnian court asked the Serbian judiciary to enforce the 14-year prison sentence for crimes against humanity handed down to wartime Bosnian Serb Army military police commander Dragomir Kezunovic.
The Appeals Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has reduced the prison sentences for four Bosnian Serb former soldiers to a total of 59 years for participation in the murder of 28 civilians on Mount Borje, near the town of Teslic, in 1992.
Under a first instance verdict in July last year, Dragan Marjanovic, Sasa Gavranovic, Vitomir Devic and Zoran Sljuka were each sentenced to 17 years in prison for the murders.
Five former Bosnian Serb military policemen appealed against their convictions for involvement in the killings of 28 Bosniak civilians on Mount Borje near Teslic in 1992.
Former Bosnian Serb military policemen Dragan Marjanovic, Sasa Gavranovic, Vitomir Devic, Zoran Sljuka and Dragomir Kezunovic launched an appeal against their convictions for crimes against humanity at the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Friday.
The state court in Sarajevo told BIRN on Thursday that it issued an international warrant for the arrest of Dragomir Kezunovic on July 20 after he was sentenced to 14 years in prison for his involvement in the shooting of 28 civilians in the Teslic area in 1992.
Kezunovic attended the trial of his own free will although he lives in Serbia, but was not present for reading of the first-instance verdict in July this year, when he was sentenced to 14 years in prison for committing crimes in Teslic.
Former police officers Dusan Kuzmanovic, Predrag Markocevic and Marinko Djukic were charged with committing crimes against humanity for allegedly persecuting Bosniaks and Croats in the town of Teslic in 1992.
The Bosnian state court on Wednesday confirmed the indictment charging ex-policemen Dusan Kuzmanovic, Predrag Markocevic and Marinko Djukic, all former officers at the Public Security Station in Teslic in northern Bosnia, with committing crimes against humanity.