Testifying at the trial of seven defendants charged with Ljubuski crimes, a protected witness identified defendant Ivan Kraljevic as the man who apprehended him on a bus, beat him and escorted him to a prison in Capljina.
State prosecution witnesses testified at the trial of former Bosnian Croat prison managers and guards charged with war crimes in Ljubuski. The witnesses described the poor living conditions and abuse they were exposed to during their detention in Ljubuski.
A state prosecution witness said Ivan Kraljevic, also known as Ivica, was present once during his examination and beating in a prison in Ljubuski, but he did not participate in it.
A state prosecution witness testifying at the trial of seven former Bosnian Croat prison managers and guards said he was beaten and tortured during his detention in a prison in Ljubuski in 1993.
State prosecution witnesses described the poor living conditions at the VIZ prison in Ljubuski, where they were held from May 1993 to March 1994. They testified at the trial of seven former prison managers and guards charged with the abuse of former prisoners.
The first prosecution witness to testify at the trial of former VIZ prison managers and guards said he was held in various facilities in Herzegovina during his ten months of detention.
Seven men went on trial accused of abusing imprisoned Bosniaks in 1993 and 1994 as part of alleged attempts to create an ethnically pure Croat statelet in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The trial of seven defendants charged with war crimes committed in the VIZ prison in Ljubuski, is scheduled to begin on October 27. A status conference on the case was held today before the Bosnian state court.
Police arrested eight former Croatian Defence Council fighters on suspicion that they committed war crimes against Bosniak prisoners detained in Ljubuski in south-west Bosnia and Herzegovina.