20 May 2016
Mirsad Hodzic, also known as Abu Dzafer, a former member of the Bosnian Army’s El Mujahid detachment, is accused of abducting and torturing three Croat civilians in Travnik in 1993.
7 April 2015
The cantonal court in Travnik sentenced Bruno Saric, a former member of the Croatian Defence Council, to four years in prison for seizing a man who was never seen alive again afterwards.
27 March 2015
The Cantonal prosecution in Travnik requested that Bruno Saric be found guilty of war crimes in Travnik. The defense called for a not guilty verdict. The pronouncement of the verdict is scheduled for April 7.
17 March 2015
Abduladhim Maktouf, an Iraqi who fought in a Bosnian Army ‘mujahideen’ unit during the conflict, had his sentence for illegally detaining Croat civilians reduced from five years to three.
3 March 2015
Testifying before the cantonal court in Novi Travnik, prosecution witness Edib Sojtaric said he watched the abduction of his former neighbour Aleksa Kostres with his neighbour’s wife. Sojtaric said Kostres was abducted by Croatian Defence Council members, including the defendant, Bruno Saric.
25 February 2015
Abduladhim Maktouf’s defense attorney requested that the appellate chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina reduce Maktouf’s sentence from five years to one year in prison.
12 February 2015
At today’s hearing of the Bruno Saric trial at the Cantonal Court in Novi Travnik, defense witnesses said that Aleksa Kostres was abducted by members of the Croatian Defence Council from Herzegovina.
3 February 2015
A Defence witness told Ratko Mladic's trial in the Hague that in 1993 the Bosnian Serb Army provided help for thousands of Croatian civilians and fighters.
16 January 2015
At the trial of former Bosnian Croat fighter Bruno Saric, a prosecution witness said his neighbour and colleague Aleksa Kostres was taken from his home and never seen again in 1992.
22 December 2014
An appellate hearing as part of the retrial of Abduladhim Maktouf for crimes in Travnik has been postponed, because the Prosecutor, indictee and Defence attorney fail to appear in court.
17 December 2014
Testifying before the Travnik Cantonal Court, witness Midhad Campara says that the kidnapping of Aleksa Kostres, which was committed by members of the Croatian Defence Council, HVO, in the central part of Travnik town in May 1992, was not registered by Travnik police until the end of 1993.
20 November 2014
Testifying at the trial of Bruno Saric for crimes in Travnik, the first Prosecution witness says that the indictee took her husband Aleksa Kostres, whom she has never seen again, in late May 1992.
30 October 2014
The Cantonal Court in Novi Travnik marked the European Day of Civil Justice on October 30 by organizing an open-door day and roundtable on sexual violence during wars.
11 July 2014
The Bosnian State court has sentenced former Iraqi volunteers Abduladhim Maktouf again to five years in prison for crimes in Travnik, after a retrial and application of the more lenient Criminal code of the former Yugoslavia.
4 July 2014
At a renewed trial against Abduladhim Maktouf for crimes in Travnik the Defence requests a minimal one-year sentence.