Person: Sehagic Jasmin

A detention facility located in the Mine Directorate building in Kakanj was not under the jurisdiction of the Municipal Defence Headquarters in that town, Defence witnesses at the trial of Jasmin Sehagic say before the Cantonal Court in Zenica.

Testifying at the trial of Jasmin Sehagic, Defence witnesses say that, in his capacity as guard, the indictee could not order the arrests of release of prisoners from a detention unit in Kakanj.

As the trial of Jasmin Sehagic for crimes in Kakanj continues before the Cantonal Court in Zenica, Defence witness Marijan Petrovic says that the indictee did not mistreat anybody and that he did not hear other people say any bad words about him during his “stay in detention”.

As the trial of Jasmin Sehagic for crimes in Kakanj continues, Defence witnesses testifying before the Zenica Cantonal Court say that they did not hear that the indictee treated detained Croats in an incorrect manner.

As the trial of Jasmin Sehagic for crimes in Kakanj continues, a Defence witness says that the indictee saved his life and that he has not heard from anyone that he was responsible for the mistreatment and abuse of detainees.

Testifying at the trial of Jasmin Sehagic for crimes in Kakanj, two Defence witnesses say that the indictee treated detainees who were held in the Brown Coal Mine directorate building in Kakanj, in “a correct and protective” manner.

Testifying in his defence at the trial before the Cantonal Court in Zenica, indictee Jasmin Sehagic says that he did not participate in the beating of detainees in Kakanj.

As the trial of Jasmin Sehagic for crimes in Kakanj continues, a Zenica Cantonal Prosecution witness says that he was hit during his detention, but the indictee did not beat him.

As the trial of Jasmin Sehagic before the Zenica Cantonal Court continues, Prosecution witness Stjepan Lozancic says that he was detained in the old Headquarters of the Kakanj Mine for nine days and that he was not abused during his detention.

As the trial of Jasmin Sehagic continues before the Cantonal Court in Zenica, prosecution witnesses say the indictee physically abused them in the summer of 1993.