Former Bosnian Serb reservist policemen Milorad Kotur and Dusan Culibrk were charged with involvement in the killings of more than 50 Bosniaks and Croats in the Bosanska Krupa area in 1992.
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.
Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Branislav Gavrilovic was charged with ordering the killing of civilians and abusing Bosniak and Croat prisoners in the Ilidza and Hadzici areas in 1992 and 1993.
Terrorism defendant Emir Alisic's lawyer Barkir Hecimovic told BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina that his client, who has been charged with joining foreign paramilitary groups, has struck a plea bargain with the Bosnian state prosecution.
At the trial of Emir Alisic, who is accused of joining foreign paramilitary groups in Syria, the defence requested the postponement of the hearing because a plea bargain is under discussion.
Former Bosnian Serb Army soldiers Branko Cigoja, Zeljko Todic and Sasa Boskic’s appeal against their convictions for killing 28 Bosniak and Croat civilians in the Donji Vakuf municipality in 1995 was rejected.
At the Bosnian state court’s trial of Jasmin Keserovic, who is charged with going to fight in the conflict in Syria, a prosecution expert witness said that four witnesses, all of whom were also in Syria, are not capable of testifying for medical reasons.
A prosecution witness told Bosnian state court at the trial of Milarem Berbic, who is accused of joining foreign paramilitary groups on the Syrian battlefront, that during the investigation he recognized the defendant on a video and photograph.
Bosnia’s Constitutional Court rejected an appeal from ex-soldier Milorad Mrdja against the verdict sentencing him to seven years in prison for raping a minor and other wartime crimes against Bosniaks in the Sanski Most area.
Bosnia and Herzegovina marked the 25th anniversary of the Dayton Peace Accords that ended the 1990s war - but amid the pandemic, the slow process of prosecuting the crimes committed during the conflict got even slower.