State court upholds verdict sentencing Slavisa Djeric to three years’ jail and Nenad Ujic to four, for the inhumane treatment of civilians detained in Rogatica in 1995.
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State court upholds verdict sentencing Slavisa Djeric to three years’ jail and Nenad Ujic to four, for the inhumane treatment of civilians detained in Rogatica in 1995.
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Slavisa Djeric outside the state court. Photo: BIRN.
The appeals chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the country’s state court, has confirmed the first-instance verdict from July last year convicting Slavisa Djeric and Nenad Ujic of the inhumane treatment of civilians detained in Rogatica, eastern Bosnia, during the 1992-5 war in Bosnia.
Djeric and Ujic were wartime members of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Military Police and guards at the Rasadnik detention facility in Rogatica. They were found guilty of the inhumane treatment of civilians from July to December 1995.
The verdict found that they beat the detainees and inflicted physical and psychological suffering on them.
Djeric was sentenced to three years in prison and Ujic to four.
Three others, Zoran Neskovic, Panto Pantovic and Pero Despet, were acquitted of all charges.
All five were acquitted of the inhumane treatment and murder of Mehmed Hajric, an imam and head of the wartime presidency in the town of Zepa.
The verdict cannot be appealed.
