News in English     | 16.08.2018. 17:23 |

BiH Constitutional Court rejects female Croat fighter’s appeal

FENA Press release

SARAJEVO, August 16 (FENA) - The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina rejected an appeal by former Croatian Defense Council fighter Indira Kamerić, who was sentenced to four years in prison for abusing civilian detainees who were held at a football stadium.

The Constitutional Court in Sarajevo on Thursday turned down the appeal by Indira Kamerić against her conviction, saying that her right to a fair trial was not violated as she had alleged, BIRN reports.

“The Constitutional Court finds there is no violation of the right to a fair trial considering the fact that regular courts provided clear and precise reasons for their conclusion that Kamerić committed the crimes with which she was charged, without elements that would imply an arbitrary application of the laws that were used or the violation of the right to a reasoned decision,” the court’s decision said.

The Constitutional Court also ruled there was no violation of the right to legal remedy because the appellant had at her disposal legal remedies to help her protect her rights, which she used.

Kamerić was found guilty, as a member of the 101st Bosanski Brod Brigade of the Croatian Defense Council, of participating in the mental and physical abuse of prisoners detained at the FK Polet football stadium in Bosanski Brod in 1992.

However she was acquitted of physically and mentally abusing a detainee at the police station in Bosanski Brod, and of aiding the rapes of female prisoners at the FK Polet stadium.

The sentence handed down was below the legal minimum because Kamerić was young at the time she committed the crimes, and because she showed respect towards the victims, said the presiding judge at her trial.

The state court’s appeals chamber increased her jail term from three to four years in February 2016.

(FENA) S. R.

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