The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court has reduced Branko Vlacos sentence. Under the new decision, Vlaco has been sentenced 13 years in prison for war crimes committed in the Vogosca area near Sarajevo.
The Bosnian state prosecution requested that the appellate chamber of Bosnias state court sentence former Bosnian Serb fighter Branko Vlaco to a long-term prison sentence. Vlacos defense requested an acquittal or the revokal of his fifteen year prison sentence.
Former warden Branko Vlaco was sentenced to 15 years in jail for crimes against humanity for abusing non-Serb prisoners at detention camps in Vogosca near Sarajevo in 1992.
On July 4, after a trial spanning a year-and-a-half, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina will deliver its verdict to Branko Vlaco, who is charged with crimes in Vogosca in 1992.
The defence lawyer for former prison warden Branko Vlaco said the evidence at his trial proved that he helped rather than abused prisoners at detention centres in Vogosca near Sarajevo.
Presenting its closing statement, the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BiH, requests the Court to sentence indictee Branko Vlaco to long-term imprisonment for crimes committed in the Vogosca area.
A first witness, testifying in defence of Branko Vlaco, who is charged with crimes in the Vogosca area, says that men from Gornja Bioca, who were capable of military service, stayed in a school building voluntarily.
Branko Vlaco, who is charged with crimes committed in detention facilities in Vogosca, fails to appear in court, so the Trial Chamber postpones the examination of his first Defence witness.
Branko Vlaco, who is charged with crimes committed in detention facilities in Vogosca, fails to appear in court, so the Trial Chamber postpones the examination of his first Defence witness.