BELGRADE/SARAJEVO, July 6 (FENA) - Serbian Belgrade High Court on Monday sentenced Husein Mujanović, who was the commander of a military prison in Hrasnica near Sarajevo during the Bosnian war, to ten years in jail for the abuse of Bosnian Serb inmates in 1992.
While reading the verdict, Judge Dejan Terzić said that the court mostly believed to witness statement from former inmates, particularly from two men called Savo Pejić and Mirko Vuković, who according to the indictment were beaten by Mujanović himself.
“There is no evidence that contains anything that would refute these statements,” Terzić said, BIRN reports.
According to the indictment, in the period from July 8 to October 15, 1992, some 30 Serb prisoners held at the Hrasnica prison, which was run by the Bosniak-led Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The prisoners were held in poor conditions and abused. Some of them were beaten in a nearby fallout shelter, and six died as a result of the beatings.
Mujanović is charged with personally beating two prisoners who survived.
He was arrested in July 2018, by Serbian police at a border crossing between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. He has been in custody in Serbia ever since and this time will be counted towards his sentence.
This is a first-instance verdict and can be appealed.
(FENA) S. R.