People: Mujcinovic Zurahid
21 October 2015
The Bosnian state court rejected a request to overturn the war crimes conviction of Bosniak ex-soldier Zurahid Mujcinovic for abusing Serb prisoners in Srebrenik in the country’s north-west.
7 September 2015
Former soldier Zurahid Mujcinovic asked the state-level court to overturn his war crimes conviction for abusing Serb prisoners in Srebrenik in north-west Bosnia because new evidence has emerged.
19 May 2015
A state prosecution witness who testified at the trial of Ekrem Ibracevic, Faruk Smajlovic and Sejdalija Covic said he found about an attack on a prisoner from guards at the Rapatnica detention center.
28 March 2014
The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina dismissed the prosecution’s motion for retrial of Zurahid Mujcinovic, previously convicted to eight years of prison for war crime committed in Srebrenik. The prosecution has launched a new investigation into these crimes.
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.
17 May 2013
The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina confirms a first instance verdict, under which Zurahid Mujcinovic was sentenced to eight years in prison for crimes committed in Srebrenik.
28 March 2013
In an appeal against the verdict in the case of Zurahid Mujcinovic for crimes committed in Srebrenik, a Defence Counsel has asked that the accused be acquitted or a new trial set, stressing that the accused is the victim of a rigged investigation and that he was never in the Youth Centre in Rapatnica nor did he torture the detainees.
3 October 2012
During the nine-month trial, the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina tried to prove that Zurahid Mujcinovic and Sulejman Hrustic committed war crimes in Srebrenik, which is denied by their Defences, who consider the indictment as “unfounded”.
23 August 2012
As the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina announced that the last witness at the trial of Zurahid Mujcinovic and Sulejman Hrustic could not be examined due to health reasons, the presentation of evidence was completed and presentation of closing statements scheduled for September.
19 April 2012
A Defence witness says, at the trial for crimes in Srebrenik, that he and indictee Zurahid Mujcinovic were members of the same unit until September 1992, when the indictee was demobilised.
5 April 2012
Testifying before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Defence witnesses say that they neither saw nor heard that indictee Zurahid Mujcinovic went to the detention unit in Rapatnica, where, according to the charged, Serb prisoners were abused, in the summer of 1992.
1 February 2012
Having admitted its exhibits into evidence, the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina finished presenting evidence at the trial of Zurahid Mujcinovic and Sulejman Hrustic, charged with crimes committed in the territory of Srebrenik.
11 January 2012
The continuation of trial for crimes in the municipality of Srebrenik is postponed after one of the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina witnesses failed to appear at the hearing.
5 October 2011
The trial of Zurahid Mujcinovic and Sulejman Hrustic for crimes in Srebrenik is due to begin on November 9 – this was confirmed at a status conference held before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
29 June 2011
Two former members of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ABiH, appear before the State Court and plead not guilty to charges that they committed crimes against the civilian population in Srebrenik municipality.