The district court of Banja Luka sentenced four people to a total of five years in prison for war crimes committed against the civilian population in Cela, near Prijedor, in March 1993.
Testifying in his defense before the district court in Banja Luka, defendant Sretko Dragic said he slapped imam Adil Solo around a few times, but didn’t torture him “too much.”
Prosecution witness Slavko Torbica tells the District Court in Banja Luka that he found the injured Imam Adil Solo in a house in which he saw the indictees.
The trial of Sretko Dragic, Zoran Torbica, Dalibor Jojic and Dragan Gnjatic, who are charged with having beaten and unlawfully arrested an Imam from the Prijedor area in March 1993, has begun before the District Court in Banja Luka.
The four persons, who are charged with crimes against the civilian population in Prijedor, appear before the District Court in Banja Luka and plead not guilty.