Courts: Cantonal Court in Bihac
16 March 2016
The cantonal court of Bihac confirmed an indictment against Bogdan Sobot, charging him with crimes committed in Sanica, near Kljuc, in mid-1992.
25 February 2016
The defense of Slavko Stricevic asked the Supreme Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina to either acquit him or repeal the first instance verdict against him. Under the initial verdict, Stricevic was sentenced to ten years in prison for crimes committed in Bosanski Petrovac.The state prosecution asked the court to confirm the first instance verdict.
24 February 2016
Former fighter Hasib Cehic was sentenced to four years in prison for committing crimes against captured Bosnian Army soldiers in the Cazin and Velika Kladusa areas during wartime.
22 February 2016
Closing statements were presented at today’s hearing of the Hasib Cehic trial. The cantonal prosecution of Bihac has called for a guilty verdict, while the defense has requested an acquittal. Cehic, a former member of the National Defense of the Western Bosnia Autonomous Region, has been charged with war crimes in the Cazin and Velika Kladusa area.
18 February 2016
Ex-fighter Zlatko Husidic was sentenced to two years in prison for physically and mentally abusing three captured members of the Bosnian Army’s Fifth Corps in Velika Kladusa in March 1995.
15 February 2016
On Thursday, February 18, the cantonal court of Bihac is scheduled to hand down its verdict against Zlatko Husidic. Husidic, a former member of the National Defense of the Western Bosnia Autonomous Region (NDWBAR), has been charged with crimes committed in Velika Kladusa in 1995.
12 February 2016
Witnesses testifying at a trial dealing with war crimes committed in Velika Kladusa said they knew defendant Zlatko Husidic but hadn’t heard that he had beaten anyone.
8 February 2016
The cantonal court of Bihac sentenced Marinko Miljevic to eight years in prison for crimes committed against civilians in Kljuc.
12 January 2016
Following a retrial, the cantonal court of Bihac acquitted Muhamed Anadolac of charges of war crimes in Bihac and Cazin.
28 December 2015
Following the signing of a guilty-plea agreement, the Cantonal Court in Bihac sentenced Safet Kovacevic to one year in prison for mistreating prisoners of war in 1995.
21 December 2015
Prosecution witnesses testifying at the Milenko Krsmanovic trial said injured party Muhidin Kapo and 20 other civilians fled the Rogatica area through Mount Romanija in July 1992. The civilians intended to reach Olovo.
14 December 2015
The first prosecution witness testified at the trial of Zlatko Husidic, who’s been charged with war crimes in Velika Kladusa. The witness said Husidic beat him in 1995.
10 December 2015
The trial of Hasib Cehic has been postponed due to a request from the defense to refer the case from the cantonal court of Bihac to another or court or, alternatively, to replace members of the trial chamber.
24 November 2015
Milanko Devic, who has been charged with war crimes in the Kljuc area in 1992, failed to appear at his plea hearing before the cantonal court of Bihac.
24 November 2015
A prosecution witness testifying at the Marinko Miljevic trial said he heard that a Bosniak woman was killed in Gornji Budelj near Kljuc, but he didn’t know who had killed her.