A state prosecution witness testifying at the trial of three former members of the Croatian Defense Council said Sead Velagic beat him during his detention in the Ivan Goran Kovacic school building in Livno.
A state prosecution witness testifying at the trial of Zdenko Andabak, Muamir Jasarevic and Sead Velagic said he heard that his father and other Serbs had been killed in the Livno area in 1992.
A state prosecution witness testifying at the trial of Zdenko Andabak, Muamir Jasarevic and Sead Velagic said he and other other Serb civilians were detained in the Ivan Goran Kovacic school in Livno during the summer of 1992.
A state prosecution witness testifying at the trial of Zdenko Andabak, Muamir Jasarevic and Sead Velagic said he saw Andabak during a failed exchange of Serb prisoners in Livno.
The trial of Zdenko Andabak, Muamir Jasarevic and Sead Velagic, accused of committing war crimes against Serb civilians in the Livno area, began yesterday at the Bosnian state court.
The Bosnian prosecution filed an indictment against three former Croatian Defence Council fighters for allegedly abusing over 300 illegally-detained Serb prisoners in Livno in 1992 and 1993.
The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has ordered a one month extension of custody measures for Muamir Jasarevic, suspected of having committed war crimes in the Livno area.
The Bosnian state prosecution has requested an extension of custody measures for Muamir Jasarevic, on the grounds that Jasarevic might attempt to flee or influence witnesses and accomplices. The defense, on the other hand, proposed that Jasarevic be released under restrictive measures.
The Bosnian court will hand down a verdict against former Bosnian Croat fighter Josip Tolic next week on Friday, March 20. Tolic is charged with abusing prisoners in detention camps located in Odzak and Bosanski Brod.