Following deliberation and acceptance of the Plea Agreement entered between the BiH Prosecutor’s Office and the accused Dušan Fuštar, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina passed the Verdict finding Dušan Fuštar guilty of the Crimes against Humanity and sentenced him to 9 (nine) years of imprisonment. The case of Željko Mejakić et al., or the case of Dušan Fuštar, was referred by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to the Court of BiH for further disposition and it is the first such case completed by a plea agreement.

The accused, inter alia, has been found guilty because between late June and 5 August 1992, as a leader of one of the three guard shifts in the Keraterm camp he did not prevent or halt abuses of detainees by his subordinate guards or other visitors. During the referred time period a number of detainees were beaten do death while other detainees were abused by guards and visitors on regular basis.

The accused has also been found guilty because he failed to assert his authority as a shift leader to protect the detainees and to improve their daily living conditions when on duty and to the extent of his ability, and because he contributed to and furthered the system of ill-treatment and persecution during the period he was shift leader.

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