News in English     | 27.09.2019. 17:45 |

BiH Constitutional Court rejects an appeal from Gojko Janković

FENA Press release

SARAJEVO, September 27 (FENA) - The Constitutional Court rejected as inadmissible the appeal filed by Gojko Janković, the leader of a Serb paramilitary group from the town of Foča, who was sentenced to 34 years in prison for crimes against humanity.  

“Gojko Janković’s appeal is hereby rejected as inadmissible,” the Constitutional Court said in its decision delivered on September 19 but made public on Friday, stated BIRN.

Janković filed an appeal to the Constitutional Court after the state court refused in 2017 to grant his request to order a new trial.

He called for a new trial because of what he said were new relevant facts and evidence, and because he argued that the criminal code of the former Yugoslavia, which was in force at the time his crimes were committed and is more lenient, should have been applied at his trial.

He submitted supplement of the appeal to the Constitutional Court on 16 September this year.

In an appeal to the Constitutional Court, he stated that he believes that his right to defense and fair trial had been violated.

Janković, who led a small paramilitary group from April 1992 that operated within the Fourth Battalion of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Foča Tactical Group, was sentenced to 34 years in prison for crimes against humanity in November 2007.

He was found guilty of rape, torture and sexually enslaving women, including the rape of a 12-year-old and the multiple rape of other several girls aged 15, 16 and 17.

Janković held one of his victims in sexual enslavement at several locations in Foča and its surroundings for several months.

He was also found guilty of the forcible relocation of the local population in the Foča area, unlawful detention and the murder and torture of Bosniaks.

The indictment against Janković was originally filed at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague.

After having been on the run for eight years, he surrendered in March 2005. His case was then transferred to the Bosnian state court in December 2005.

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