The Bosnian state prosecution has called upon the state court to extend prohibitive measures against state court judge Azra Miletic, Senad Sabic and Ramo Brkic, whove been accused of offering and accepting bribes.
In at least 12 cases, Bosnian state court and prosecution employees are related to each other a situation which could create conflicts of interest, experts say.
Former Bosniak soldiers facing trial at Bosnias appeals chamber have requested that the court pronounce them not guilty. Mehura Selimovic, Adil Ruznic, and Emir Mustafic stand accused of abusing prisoners of war at several detention sites in Krajina during the Bosnian war.
Testifying in their defence before the District Court in Banja Luka, indictees Semir Alukic and Fikret Hirkic say that they did not kill Bozo Indjic and Ostoja Baltic in Kozarac, near Prijedor, in August 1992.
The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina dismissed the prosecutions motion for retrial of Zurahid Mujcinovic, previously convicted to eight years of prison for war crime committed in Srebrenik. The prosecution has launched a new investigation into these crimes.
Defence witness Zaim Causevic says before the District Court in Banja Luka that his statements given during the investigation, in which he spoke about the indictees participation in crimes, are incorrect.
Former soldiers Mehura Selimovic, Adil Ruznic and Emir Mustafic are accused of physically and mentally abusing Serb detainees in Bosnias northern Krajina region from 1994 to 1996.
Although they were sentenced for the gravest of crimes, including war crimes, the law allows convicts to become citizens with no previous convictions after they have served their imprisonment sentences.
Ex-soldiers Mehura Selimovic, Adil Ruznic and Emir Mustafic appealed against a verdict sentencing them to a total of 25 years in prison abusing Serb prisoners in Bosanska Krajina.
At the trial of three indictees, who are charged with crimes in Bosnian Krajina, the Defence of Mehura Selimovic presents a few pieces of material evidence, trying to prove that the Military Security Service of the Fifth Corps with the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ABiH, examined prisoners of war in order to investigate war crimes by members of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS.