Case: Selimovic Mehura et al.
4 March 2015
Two former members of the Bosnian Army’s Fifth Corps were sentenced to three-and-a-half years in jail each for the abuse of prisoners detained at a barracks in Bihac.
11 February 2015
Former Bosniak soldiers facing trial at Bosnia’s appeals chamber have requested that the court pronounce them not guilty. Mehura Selimovic, Adil Ruznic, and Emir Mustafic stand accused of abusing prisoners of war at several detention sites in Krajina during the Bosnian war.
28 January 2015
At the end of the retrial the State Prosecution requests the Appellate Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BiH, to sentence Mehura Selimovic, Adil Ruznic and Emir Mustafic for crimes in Krajina.
12 February 2014
Former soldiers Mehura Selimovic, Adil Ruznic and Emir Mustafic are accused of physically and mentally abusing Serb detainees in Bosnia’s northern Krajina region from 1994 to 1996.
6 February 2014
The retrial of Mehura Selimovic, Adil Ruznic and Emir Mustafic, who are charged with crimes against the civilian population and prisoners of war in Krajina, is due to begin on February 12.
12 December 2013
The Appellate Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina quashes a first instance verdict, under which Mehura Selimovic, Adil Ruznic and Emir Mustafic were sentenced to a total of 25 years in prison for war crimes committed in Krajina.
4 November 2013
Ex-soldiers Mehura Selimovic, Adil Ruznic and Emir Mustafic appealed against a verdict sentencing them to a total of 25 years in prison abusing Serb prisoners in Bosanska Krajina.
4 September 2012
The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina considers that during the trial of Mehura Selimovic, Adil Ruznic and Emir Mustafic, former members of the Fifth Corps of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ABiH), they have proved that the indictees participated in crimes against civilians and prisoners of war in Bosanska Krajina, and ask the Court to be find the indictees guilty and sentenced “by the law”.
13 July 2012
On the second day of presentation of its closing statement at the trial for crimes in Bosnian Krajina the Defence of Adil Ruznic says that the indictee did not have competencies over the collection centers in Bihac, Cazin and Bosanski Petrovac and that he is not responsible for crimes committed in them.
5 April 2012
A court expert in military issues says, at the trial for crimes committed in Bosnian Krajina, that indictees Mehura Selimovic and Adil Ruznic had a chance to see and prevent the violation of rights of prisoners of war.
8 March 2012
At the continuing trial of three men accused of crimes in Bosanska Krajina, a witness for the state prosecution told the court of his capture and interrogation by the 5th Corps of the Army of BiH.
2 February 2012
As he continues presenting his findings and opinion at a request by the Defence of indictees Adil Ruznic and Emir Mustafic, a military expert witness says that Ruznic conducted informative conversations with prisoners of war, but he was not competent to decide which of the prisoners would be exchanged.
22 December 2011
At the trial for crimes in Bosanska Krajina, witnesses of the Defence said that indictee Emir Mustafic was not a guard at the “Adil Besic” barracks in Bihac, adding that he was “clerk”.
5 October 2011
At the trial for crimes in Bosnian Krajina a Defence witness says that indictee Adil Ruznic did not examine prisoners of war in the “Rad” car workshop in Cazin.
17 August 2011
At the trial of three indictees, who are charged with crimes in Bosnian Krajina, the Defence of Mehura Selimovic presents a few pieces of material evidence, trying to prove that the Military Security Service of the Fifth Corps with the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ABiH, examined prisoners of war in order to investigate war crimes by members of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS.