Bosnian Serb Army ex-soldier Milenko Macanovic was sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison for war crimes for killing a Bosniak civilian prisoner who was detained at a school in Kljuc in 1992 and injuring another.
The Bosnian Federation entity’s Supreme Court upheld a verdict convicting former Bosnian Army deputy battalion commander Hajriz Doglod of torturing and then shooting dead a civilian near Vitez in 1993.
Bosnian Serb Army ex-officer Veljko Papic appealed against his conviction for forcing civilians to do hard labour on the front lines in the Bosnian capital and making some of them remove the bodies of a young couple who were murdered.
Wartime Bosnian Serb Army officer Veljko Papic’s conviction for forcing civilians to do hard labour on the front lines in besieged Sarajevo in 1993-94 was overturned and a retrial ordered.
Empty graves are waiting for three young Bosnian Army soldiers who disappeared during an attack by Bosnian Croat forces in Mostar in May 1993, but despite their families’ efforts, their bodies have not been found and their killers remain unprosecuted.
Wartime Serb fighters Slobodan Bogdanovic and Goran Sladoje were both found guilty of physically abusing a Bosniak man and his son and using them as human shields in Sarajevo during the war in 1992.
Police in Banja Luka arrested former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Dusko Solesa, who is wanted to serve a six-year prison sentence for raping a teenage girl in the Bihac municipality during the war in 1992.
The acquittal of an Algerian migrant charged with murder in Bosnia has spurred calls for a change to the law and court rules on establishing the identity of a defendant.
Appeals against the verdict in the Mato Martic case were presented before the Supreme Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Martic was sentenced to one year and eight months in prison for crimes committed in the Zepce area.
The defense of Slavko Stricevic asked the Supreme Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina to either acquit him or repeal the first instance verdict against him. Under the initial verdict, Stricevic was sentenced to ten years in prison for crimes committed in Bosanski Petrovac.The state prosecution asked the court to confirm the first instance verdict.