Second instance verdicts pronounced by the State Court during the past year indicate that the State Prosecution has been partially successful in proving the gravest war-crimes accusations.
Although they were sentenced for the gravest of crimes, including war crimes, the law allows convicts to become citizens with no previous convictions after they have served their imprisonment sentences.
Testifying at the trial for crimes in Odzak and Bosanski Brod, the first State Prosecution witness says that indictee Josip Tolic forced him to bang his head against the blackboard and that he witnessed abuse of other people, in which the indictee participated.
The jail term for Albina Terzic, one of just a handful of women prosecuted for war crimes in Bosnia over her role in abusing prisoners, was cut on appeal from five years to three.
The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Defence present their appeals before the Appellate Chamber, expressing their dissatisfaction with a first instance verdict, under which the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina sentenced Albina Terzic to five years in prison.
Being dissatisfied with the sentence, the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina files an appeal against a first instance verdict, under which Albina Terzic was sentenced to five years in prison for crimes in Odzak.
One of a handful female war crime defendants in Bosnia, Albina Terzic, has been sentenced to five years in prison for crimes against Bosnian Serbs in the northern Bosnian town of Odzak in 1992.
The Bosnian State Prosecution asked the court to convict Albina Terzic for crimes committed in the northern Bosnian town of Odzak in 1992 and pronounce “an adequate” sentence.
Once the presentation of Defence’s evidence was completed, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina accepted a Prosecution proposal to allow the examination of two additional witnesses at the trial of Albina Terzic, who is charged with crimes in Odzak.
The presentation of Defence’s evidence at the trial of Albina Terzic has been completed with the examination of two protected witnesses, one of whom says that a Nina was present, when he was sexually abused in Odzak.