The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in a first-instance verdict acquitted Sena Hamzabegovic of financing terrorist activities by raising cash and taking it to help ISIL fighters in Syria and Iraq.
Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Rade Garic’s sentence for persecuting Bosniaks from the Vlasenica and Srebrenica areas in 1992 and 1995 was reduced on appeal from 20 years to 17 years in prison.
The Constitutional Court rejected an appeal from former Army of Republika Srpska soldier Sretko Pavic, who was sentenced to 11 years in prison for killing of five members of a Bosniak family near Prijedor during the war in 1992.
The Bosnian state court has again rejected an indictment accusing wartime Serb official Milenko Stanic of committing crimes against humanity against Bosniak civilians in the Vlasenica area in 1992 and 1993.
Former Bosnian Serb Army soldiers Milomir Djuricic and Vukadin Spasojevic pleaded not guilty to wartime crimes against civilians including unlawful detention, torture and rape at a prison camp in Visegrad in 1992 and 1993.
Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Slobodan Curcic is accused of shooting two Bosniaks dead and raping a woman in the Foca area during the Bosnian war in 1992.
Eight former police officers in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity have been charged with participating in the killing of 22 Bosniaks, including women and children, near Bijeljina in 1992.
Milenko Zivanovic, a former general and commander of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Drina Corps, was charged with directing armed units that attacked Bosniak civilians in the Srebrenica and Zepa areas in 1995.
The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina has filed an indictment against Branislav Lasica and Miroslav Milovic for crimes in the village of Lozje, near Gorazde, in 1992.
State Prosecution filed 15 war crime indictments against 39 persons this year, less than in 2020, including four persons who were previously convicted by the Hague Tribunal and State Court.