Nikola Andrun was convicted of involvement in the murder and torture of prisoners at the Gabela detention camp near Capljina but his jail sentence was cut from 18 to 14 years.
The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina proposes to the Court to sentence Nikola Andrun, whose trial has been renewed due to wrong application of law, to at least 18 years in prison, while the Defence requests his release.
The retrial of Nikola Andrun, who was released from prison, where he was serving his sentence for crimes in Capljina, because the verdict against him was quashed, has begun before the Appellate Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina requests custody for Nikola Andrun, who was released from prison, where he was serving his sentence, after a verdict against him for crimes against the civilian population in Capljina in 1993 was quashed.
A hearing at which a custody order motion for Nikola Andrun was due to be discussed has been postponed due to a change of Defence attorney. Andrun was released from prison, where he was serving his sentence for war crimes, due to the wrong application of a law.
The EU and international organisations in Bosnia expressed concerns after ten war crimes and genocide convicts were set free because they were tried under the wrong criminal code.
The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina files custody order motions for ten former war-crimes and genocide convicts, who were released by the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and allowed to defend themselves while at liberty. They were sentenced to between 14 and 33 years in prison.
The release to liberty of ten war crimes and genocide convicts has brought war-crimes victims into a situation whereby they have become victims of the system nearly 20 years after the war. In order to prevent that from happening, they call on the judges of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina to resign.
The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina announces that it will make a separate decision for each individual case as to whether to renew second instance trials against the ten genocide and other war crimes convicts, who have been released from prison.
The Bosnian state court has ordered the immediate release of ten genocide and war crimes convicts because the wrong criminal code was used at their trials.