The district court of Eastern Sarajevo acquitted Luka Majstorovic of charges of wartime crimes committed in the Kula Penal and Correctional Facility in Eastern Sarajevo.
The trial of Luka Majstorovic has been renewed after the district court of Eastern Sarajevo repealed his acquittal. Majstorovic has been charged with crimes in Kula in Eastern Sarajevo.
The Supreme Court of Republika Srpska has repealed a verdict handed down by the District Court in Eastern Sarajevo, which acquitted Luka Majstorovic of charges of war crimes committed in the Kula Penal and Correctional Facility.
Senaid Ibrahimefendic, the president of the District Court of Eastern Sarajevo, said witnesses refusing to testify in war crimes cases is the most frequent problem his court faces.
Prosecutor Tarik Crnkic, who works for the District Prosecutor’s Office in Istocno Sarajevo, is currently conducting investigations on 306 persons suspected of committing war crimes. In an interview for BIRN Justice Report, Crknic says that cases dealing with serious crimes such as murder, severe torture, sexual abuse, and inhumane treatment are a top priority.
The District Court of Eastern Sarajevo acquitted Luka Majstorovic, who was charged with an assault he allegedly committed in the Kula Prison and Correctional Facility in Eastern Sarajevo.
Luka Majstorovic, who is charged with crimes in the Kula Penal and Correctional Facility in Eastern Sarajevo, says, testifying in his defence, that he enlisted detainees, who were brought from the Dobrinja and Kotorac area, within the Kula complex.
The trial of Luka Majstorovic, who is charged with crimes in the Kula Penal and Correctional Facility in Eastern Sarajevo, has been postponed as the Defence attorney of the indictee had commitments related to another case.
Testifying at the trial for crimes in Eastern Sarajevo, a Prosecution witness says that he heard from other detainees that Luka Majstorovic made a list of detainees, who were held in Kula prison.
Testifying at the trial for crimes in Eastern Sarajevo, a Prosecution witness says that indictee Luka Majstorovic and another person beat him up in Kula prison.
Testifying at the trial of Luka Majstorovic, who is charged with crimes in Eastern Sarajevo, a witness says that two men beat him up during his detention in Kula Penal and Correctional Facility in May 1992.
In two years from now, the first convicts of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BiH, are supposed to move into a state prison on the territory of Eastern Ilidza, whose building has finally begun following several delays.