In its motion seeking custody orders, the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH alleges that there is grounded suspicion that suspects Nisvet Gasal, acting as a warden of a detention camp Iskra stadium, and Musajb Kukavica, as a deputy warden of the camp, acted contrary to the rules of international humanitarian law. According to the Prosecutor’s Office allegations, the suspects inter alia participated in planning and committing of persecution of non-Bosniak civilians and imprisonment of members of the Croatian Defence Council, placing them in detention camps, and their physical and mental torture and killings. The Prosecutor in her motion inter alia states that 22 detainees from Iskra stadium were taken to perform forced labour and that no one heard of them ever again.
On the basis of the evidence submitted, the Court concluded that there was grounded suspicion that the suspect had committed the above criminal offences. The Court ordered custody having found that the grounded suspicion that the suspects might interfere with criminal proceedings influencing witnesses and co-perpetrators exist.
