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SARAJEVO, December 12 (FENA) - The sentence handed down to former Bosnian Army soldier Suad Smajlović, convicted of mutilating Serb civilians’ dead bodies in 1992, was increased to three years in jail.
The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court on Thursday upheld a prosecution appeal and increased Suad Smajlović’s sentence from one year and two months in prison to three years, BIRN reports.
Under the first-instance verdict in September 2018, Smajlović was found guilty of mutilating the dead bodies of Serb civilians by shooting at them in the summer of 1992, but was acquitted of participating in their murders.
The court on Thursday also confirmed the acquittal of Smajlović’s fellow Bosnian Army ex-soldier and co-defendant Amir Salihović.
Salihović was cleared of unlawfully arresting nine people following a military operation in Zalazje on 12 July 1992, and taking them away to an unknown location, after which they were never seen again.
The proceedings against a third defendant, Izet Arifović, were discontinued in February this year due to his death.
Under the first-instance verdict, he had been sentenced to ten years in prison for the murders of civilians in the Srebrenica and Bratunac areas.
Thursday’s verdict cannot be appealed.
(FENA) S. R.
