17 June 2015
Presenting his closing statement, Aleksandar Cvetkovic’s defense attorney said Cvetkovic didn’t participate in the execution of civilians from Srebrenica on the Branjevo Farm in the municipality of Zvornik in July 1995. As such, the defense believes that their client should be acquitted of charges of participating in genocide.
10 March 2015
The Bosnian state prosecution called upon Vlastimir Golijan and Zoran Goronja to testify regarding statements they gave during proceedings which had been previously brought against them by the Bosnian state court.
17 February 2015
At today’s hearing of the Aleksander Cvetkovic trial, the defense included 44 pieces of material evidence in the case file. Cvetkovic, a former Bosnian Serb fighter, is charged with mass killings that took place during the Srebrenica genocide.
20 January 2015
Testifying in defence of Aleksandar Cvetkovic, a witness says that the indictee did not participate in the shooting of Muslim captives on Branjevo in July 1995.
8 January 2014
Second instance verdicts pronounced by the State Court during the past year indicate that the State Prosecution has been partially successful in proving the gravest war-crimes accusations.
16 August 2013
The Bosnian prosecutor said Aleksandar Cvetkovic, extradited from Israel over his suspected involvement in the Srebrenica genocide, should be remanded in custody because he might flee.
10 May 2013
The Appellate Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina reduces the sentence against Franc Kos, Stanko Kojic, Vlastimir Golijan and Zoran Goronja and sentences them to a total of 112 years in prison for crimes against humanity committed in the Srebrenica area in 1995.
15 February 2013
On the second day of the presentation of their appeals against a first instance verdict, under which four former members of the Tenth Reconnaissance Squad were sentenced to 142 years in prison for crimes in Srebrenica in July 1995, the Defence teams request the Court to quash the first instance verdict or order a retrial.
30 November 2012
The Supreme Court of Israel has decided that there are no obstacles to extraditing Aleksandar Cvetkovic, who is suspected of participating in genocide in Srebrenica, to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
18 April 2012
At a trial for genocide in Srebrenica, the defendant Stanko Kojic said that he had taken part in the murders at the Branjevo farm in July 1995 and that the Serbian State Security service was told about the massacre.
11 April 2012
At the trial of the four indictees, who are charged with genocide in Srebrenica, the Defence of Franc Kos presents material evidence related to the functioning of the Tenth Reconnaissance Squad of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, and hiding of information about the happenings in Srebrenica in 1995.
16 March 2012
A Defence witness says, at the trial for genocide in Srebrenica, that a few people prepared the crime that happened in Srebrenica in 1995.
29 February 2012
A Defence expert witness says, at the trial of four indictees, who are charged with genocide before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, that members of the Tenth Reconnaissance Squad with the Republika Srpska Army, VRS were invited to help execute a task on July 16, 1995, but they did not know what the task was at that time.
17 February 2012
As the Defence attorneys of indictee Franc Kos fail to appear in courtroom, the trial for genocide in Srebrenica has been postponed.
3 February 2012
At the trial for Srebrenica genocide, a psychiatrist claims that the accused Stanko Kojic is a “paranoid schizophrenic”, and that he could not have understood what he was doing in July 1995 in Srebrenica.