The verdict in the retrial of Ilija Pavic will be announced by the Supreme Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Thursday, November 26. Pavic has been charged with war crimes in Livno.
A former Bosnian state prosecutor said if he is found guilty of prioritizing complex war crimes cases instead of focusing on simple ones, it will send 'a dangerous message".
The defense of Hajrudin Dedic has called upon the Supreme Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina to either acquit Dedic or repeal the verdict against him. The state prosecution called on the court to reject the appeal and to uphold the guilty verdict handed down by the cantonal court of Zenica in October 2014.
Former state prosecutor Munib Halilovic said the disciplinary procedure initiated against him was an attack on Bosnias national strategy for processing war crimes. Halilovic is facing the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Councils (HJPC) disciplinary commission on charges of failing to investigate a war crimes case.
Munib Halilovic, a former Bosnian state prosecutor, is facing the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Councils disciplinary commission on charges of failing to investigate a war crimes case.
The Bosnian prosecution admitted that the most complex cases will not be solved by the end of this year the deadline set by the state-level war crimes strategy.
Entity level prosecutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina are dissatisfied with the practice of transferring war crimes from the state level to the entities, after indictments have already been raised. This is affecting their norms, BIRN has learned.
The Federal Prosecution requests the Court to pronounce longer sentence against four suspects, whom the Tuzla Cantonal Court sentenced to a total of 18-and-a-half years in prison for crimes against prisoners of war in Smoluca, Lukavac municipality, while the Defence requests quashing of the verdict.
In its appeal against a verdict pronounced by the Mostar Cantonal Court the Federal Prosecution requests the Supreme Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, FBiH, pronounces longer sentences against Mijo Banovic and Gojko Granic for crimes against civilians in Dretelj, while the Defence requests the acquittal of the two indictees or a retrial.
The Prosecution requests the Supreme Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BiH, to sentence Mladenko Vrtunic to more than ten years in prison for crimes against the civilian population in Kljuc in 1992.