Testifying at the war crimes trial of former prison warden Nenad Przulj, prosecution witnesses said that prisoners were held in grim conditions and beaten up in detention in the Sokolac area.
A prosecution witness told the trial of six Serbs accused of crimes against humanity that he and other Bosniak prisnoners were beaten up in detention in Kotor-Varos during wartime.
At the trial of four former Bosnian Serb soldiers, a prosecution witness said that he was abused and tortured with electric shocks at a local barracks in the town of Bileca in 1992.
Witness Marinko Pazin told the state court on Tuesday that he was arrested and taken from Rotimlje near Stolac to Bileca, where he was abused in a classroom in the barracks in May 1992.
The defence lawyer for Zeljko Ilic, one of three former policeman accused of crimes against humanity in the Bileca area in 1992, called for his client to be acquitted.
Na suđenju Sakibu Mahmuljinu za zločine počinjene na području Vozuće (općina Zavidovići), svjedok Optužbe je ispričao kako su ga tukli i mučili u zarobljeništvu Odreda “El Mudžahidin” te kako je vidio odsječene glave saboraca.
At the trial of five defendants charged with crimes in the Mostar area in 1993, the state prosecution read a witness statement on the mistreatment of detainees in Meke and Potoci.
Presenting its closing statement, the state prosecution called upon the state court to find Zoran Bjelica and Novica Tripkovic guilty of crimes in the Kalinovik area and sentence them in accordance with the law.
A witness testifying in defense of Miroslav Duka said he was told that paramilitary soldiers had apprehended Bosniaks and took them to the Bileca police station in June 1992. Duka, Goran Vujovic and Zeljko Ilic have been charged with war crimes in Bileca.
The trial of former Bosnian Army members Minet Akeljic, Saban Haskic, Senad Bilal, Hazim Patkovic and Semsudin Djelilovic began with a reading of the indictment and the state prosecution’s opening statements. The defendants have been charged with committing war crimes against Croat civilians and prisoners of war in Kruscica in the municipality of Vitez.