15. November 2019.
Belgrade Higher Court convicted former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Joja Plavanjac of killing 11 people at a prison in Bosanska Krupa in Bosnia in August 1992 and his fellow ex-serviceman Zdravko Narancic of helping him.
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5. November 2019.
The Bosnian prosecution appealed against the verdict acquitting former policemen Jadranko Saran, Samir Sabic and Zijad Kadic of war crimes against civilians and prisoners of war in Bosanska Krupa in 1995 and 1996.
The Bosnian prosecution on Tuesday appealed against the first-instance verdict acquitting former policemen Jadranko Saran, Samir Sabic and Zijad Kadic of unlawfully detaining civilians, as well as murder and inhumane treatment at several detention facilities in Bosanska Krupa between September 1995 and July 1996.
25. October 2019.
Ibro Merkez, a police chief in the Bosnian town of Gorazde during wartime, was sentenced to two years in prison for unlawfully detaining and mistreating Serb civilians in 1992.
The state court in Sarajevo on Friday found Ibro Merkez guilty, as the former chief of the police’s Public Security Station in Gorazde, of unlawfully detaining Serb civilians and treating them in inhumanely manner between the middle of July 1992 and August 4 the same year.
4. October 2019.
Former policemen Jovan Kusic and Branislav Vukovic were charged with illegally detaining, abusing and torturing Bosniak civilians in the town of Pale in 1992.
The Bosnian state prosecution on Friday indicted Jovan Kusic, alias Joja, and Branislav Vukovic, alias Bato, for having participated in the unlawful detention, torture, abuse and beating of Bosniak civilians who were detained in a gym at the Cultural Centre in Pale in May and June 1992.
17. September 2019.
Eight Bosniaks are being retried for committing crimes against Serb and Croat civilian prisoners who were illegally held in detention camps in the Hadzici area during wartime.
12. September 2019.
The defence lawyer for Ibro Merkez, a wartime police commander in Gorazde on trial for involvement in unlawfully detaining, abusing and killing Serb civilians in 1992, said he should be acquitted.
23. August 2019.
Alminko Islamovic was convicted in April of the inhumane treatment of Serb civilians during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
5. August 2019.
Former detainees of the infamous Bosnian Serb-run death and detention camp near Prijedor intend to mark the 27th anniversary of its closure by erecting a plaque – despite not getting official permission to do so.
2. August 2019.
Former detainees who were imprisoned by Bosnian Croat forces in a hospital for bone diseases in the town of Stolac will hold a commemoration for those who were tortured and died at the wartime detention facility.
26. July 2019.
The Bosnian appeals court upheld a verdict convicting four former Bosnian Army military policemen of physically and sexually abusing Croat civilians at a detention facility in the village of Kruscica near Vitez in 1993.
The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Friday upheld the verdict sentencing ex-soldiers Minet Akeljic, Saban Haskic, Senad Bilal and Hazim Patkovic to a total of 27 years in prison for crimes against civilians in the village of Kruscica in 1993.
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