The Bosnian state court has decided to end the custody remand for Hamza La-bidi, who has been accused of joining foreign paramilitary groups in Syria, de-fence lawyer Bakir Hecimovic confirmed to BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Former Bosnian Serb Army serviceman Sasa Curcic’s defence called for him to be cleared of raping and sexually abusing a Bosniak woman in the south-eastern town of Foca during wartime in 1992.
Testifying at the Bosnian state court at the trial of Hamza Labidi, who is accused of joining foreign paramilitary groups in Syria, a criminology expert said that the defendant’s identity was established by a fingerprint analysis at Sarajevo airport.
Ibro Merkez, a wartime police chief in the Bosnian town of Gorazde, was found not guilty on appeal of the unlawful detention and inhumane treatment of Serb civilian prisoners in 1992.
Edhem Godinjak, Medaris Saric and Mirko Bunoza are on trial for the killings and inhumane treatment of imprisoned Serb soldiers and civilians in Trnovo near Sarajevo during the war in 1992.
Radenko Marinovic, who was found not guilty of participating in the persecution of the Bosniak population in the Prijedor area in 1992, is suing the state for around 25,500 euros in compensation.
At the trial of Emir Alisic, who is accused of joining foreign paramilitary group in Syria, images of the defendant in uniform with a rifle were shown to the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo, while witnesses explained how they gathered information about his departure to Syria and the time he spent there.
The trial of Milarem Berbic, who is accused of joining foreign paramilitary formations in Syria, began with then reading of the indictment by the prosecution, which accuses him of leaving Bosnia and Herzegovina on August 29, 2014, intending to join foreign paramilitary groups in Syria.
Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Rade Vlasenko, who was acquitted of taking three civilians from a detention camp in 1992 and then killing one of them, is suing the state for 10,210 euros.
Former Bosnian Serb soldier Sretko Pavic was sentenced to 11 years in prison for killing of five members of a Bosniak family in a village near Prijedor during the war in 1992.