The appellate chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has reduced Milorad Trbics sentence from 30 to 20 years in prison. Trbic was convicted for his participation in the Srebrenica genocide.
Testifying at the trial of former Bosnian Serb commanders Ostoja Stanisic and Marko Milosevic, witness Milorad Trbic denied his involvement in the Srebrenica genocide. Trbic is currently serving prison time for his role in the Srebrenica genocide.
Almost five years after being convicted for the Srebrenica genocide, a former Bosnian Serb army member whose verdict was quashed because of the wrong application of law at his trial, has told the Bosnian court he was innocent.
The Bosnian constitutional court has put a stop to the releases of war crimes convicts whose verdicts are quashed because the wrong criminal code was used at their trials.
Human rights experts of the United Nations, UN, express fear the release of Milorad Trbic, whose verdict for genocide was quashed, might lead to the 're-victimization of victims'.
The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has quashed a verdict under which Milorad Trbic was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the genocide in Srebrenica.
At the trial of two Bosnian Serb soldiers for the Srebrenica genocide, a prosecution witness said that he saw many dead bodies laid out at the Petkovci dam near Zvornik in July 1995.
Testifying at the trial for genocide in Srebrenica, a State Prosecution witness says that Drago Nikolic and Milorad Trbic visited a school building in Petkovci and a nearby dam, where about one thousand Bosniak prisoners were killed, in mid-July 1995.