Appeal judges at the Bosnian state court upheld the verdict convicting five former policemen of torturing Bosniak civilian detainees in the north-eastern town of Janja from 1992 to 1994.
At the trial of ten former policemen for wartime crimes in the town of Janja, a prosecution witness said that his father up was beaten up by the police in November 1993, and later died.
Witnesses told the trial of former Croatian Defence Council fighter Almaz Nezirovic, accused of abusing prisoners in Derventa and Bosanski Brod, that the defendant beat them with a rubber baton.
The Bosnian state court has confirmed an indictment against seven former policemen, charging them with crimes against humanity committed in the Janja area from April 1992 to September 1994.