Slobodan Karagic’s 12-year prison sentence for war crimes against civilians in the Doboj area in 1992, including the rape of minors and the unlawful arrests of Bosniaks, was upheld on appeal.
A prosecution witness claimed that military policeman Mehmed Alesevic, who is on trial for war crimes, was present while other soldiers beat him up at a motel in Buzim in 1995.
Testifying at the trial of Mehmed Alesevic at the state court on Monday, prosecution witness Safet Dzaferovic said that the defendant was there when he was beaten, although he did not participate in the assault.
A witness alleged that former special forces policeman Slobodan Karagic, who is accused of murder and unlawful detentions in Doboj, threatened to throw him into a river in 1992.
Prosecution witness Ibro Spahic told the state court in Sarajevo on Monday that he was threatened by Slobodan Karagic, a Serb former Red Berets special police unit commander who is charged with participating in attacks against the Croat and Bosniak population in the Doboj area from spring to autumn 1992.
A prosecution witness told the war crimes trial of former Serb special policeman Slobodan Karagic that the defendant raped her in Doboj when she was 15.
The protected prosecution witness codenamed K-1 told the court in Sarajevo on Monday that the defendant Slobodan Karagic, a former commander of the Red Berets special police unit, raped her in Doboj in 1992.
The state prosecution has filed an indictment against former police unit commander Slobodan Karagic, also known as Karaga, accusing him of committing crimes against humanity in the Doboj and Teslic area in 1992.
Slobodan Karagic, the former head of a police unit in Doboj, is accused of involvement in the killings of at least 12 Bosniaks among other crimes allegedly committed during attacks in 1992.