People: Maktouf Abduladhim
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.
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.
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.
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.
1 July 2014
Abduladhim Maktouf, an Iraqi who fought alongside the Bosnian Army during the 1992-95 conflict, will be retried after the original verdict sentencing him to five years in jail was annulled.
25 December 2013
Only 14 of about 100 people indicted for the gravest crimes are currently in the custody of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
20 November 2013
The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina neither decided on whether war crimes trials should be renewed completely due to the wrong application of the law nor if convicts sentenced to long-term imprisonment should be released to liberty, says the Court President Valerija Galic.
20 November 2013
The EU and international organisations in Bosnia expressed concerns after ten war crimes and genocide convicts were set free because they were tried under the wrong criminal code.
19 November 2013
Defence attorneys of convicts sentenced for genocide and war crimes before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina announce that proceedings will be renewed in many more cases due to the wrong application of the Criminal Code.
19 November 2013
The release to liberty of ten war crimes and genocide convicts has brought war-crimes victims into a situation whereby they have become victims of the system nearly 20 years after the war. In order to prevent that from happening, they call on the judges of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina to resign.
11 November 2013
Judicial institutions were urged to make changes to ensure fairness after a European human rights court ruling led to the overturning of verdicts against several convicted war criminals.
24 October 2013
Bosnia’s constitutional court overturned the convictions of ten unnamed war criminals after a European human rights court ruling suggested they were tried under the wrong criminal code.
11 October 2013
After ordering the retrial of their war crimes trial, the Bosnian State Court has released Goran and Zoran Damjanovic.
9 October 2013
The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina accepts a request for enabling the renewal of the court proceeding against Abduladhim Maktouf, who was previously sentenced for war crimes.