Defence closing arguments before the Appellate Panel of Section I for War Crimes of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), in the Marko Radić et al. case have been scheduled for 17 and 18 February 2011, starting at 9.00 a.m. in Courtrooms 7 and 8.

 

On 14^th April 2010 Panel of the Appellate Division of the Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina sent out the decision granting the appeals filed by the Defence revoking the first-instance verdict of 20^th February 2009 and ordering a hearing to be held before the Appellate Panel.  

 

By the first-instance Verdict of this Court of 20^th February 2009, the accused Marko Radić, Dragan Šunjić, Damir Brekalo, and Mirko Vračević were found guilty of the criminal offence of Crimes against Humanity in violation of Article 172(1)(h), in conjunction with Subparagraphs (a), (e), (f), (g), and (k), in conjunction with Article 29 and 180(1) of the Criminal Code of BiH. With respect to the foregoing criminal offence, the following prison sentences were imposed on the accused: the accused Radić was sentenced to long-term imprisonment of 25 years, the accused Šunjić to long-term imprisonment of 21 years, the accused Brekalo was sentenced to long-term imprisonment of 20 years, and the accused Vračević to a prison sentence of 14 years.