On 28 July 2025 the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina sent out a Trial Judgment, delivered on 22 May 2025 in the case of Vojin Pavlović, finding the accused Vojin Pavlović guilty of the criminal offense of Provoking Ethnic, Racial and Religious Hatred, Discord and Intolerance under Article 145.a(6) of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina (CC BiH), and the criminal offense of Provoking Ethnic, Racial and Religious Hatred, Discord and Intolerance under Article 145.a(4), as read with Paragraph 3, of the CC BiH.

The Court imposed the following prison sentences on the accused:

• for the criminal offense of Provoking Ethnic, Racial and Religious Hatred, Discord and Intolerance under Article 145.a(6) CC BiH – two years and two months;
• for the criminal offense of Provoking Ethnic, Racial and Religious Hatred, Discord and Intolerance under Article 145.a(4), as read with Paragraph 3, of the CC BiH – up to ten months.

The Court ultimately imposed on the accused a compound sentence of two (2) years and six (6) months of imprisonment.

Under Section 1 of the operative part of the Judgment the accused Vojin Pavlović was found guilty that, on 10 March 2023, in Bratunac, at the intersection of Gavrila Principa and Sveti Sava streets in the city center, together with unidentified persons known to him, he placed a banner with the image of the former commander of the Army of the Republika Srpska Ratko Mladić above the traffic light, on which the following message was written: "Happy Birthday, Long Live and Good Health", knowing full well, being the chairman of the steering board of the "Eastern Alternative" Association of Republika Srpska, and as a resident of Bratunac, that by the said action he glorifies the image of Ratko Mladić, who was convicted by a final judgment of the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for the crime of genocide, and that such actions of his could cause ethnic, religious hatred, discord and intolerance. It is further alleged that the accused, agreeing to such a consequence, placed the aforementioned banner in a public place, the content of which caused anxiety and fear among some of the residents in that area, especially among the Bosniak returnees to the surrounding villages in the Bratunac municipality, including S.A. and A.M.

It is further alleged that under Section 2 of the operative part of the Judgment, the accused, as the president of the Citizens' Association "Eastern Alternative", from June 2023 to 12 July 2023, approved and attempted to justify the crime of genocide by organizing a public gathering for which he made posters on which it was written: "11 JULY, THE DAY OF THE LIBERATION OF SREBRENICA; THANK YOU TO THE ARMY OF REPUBLIKA SRPSKA", which posters he pasted in the area of the Bratunac municipality, which borders the Srebrenica municipality, and thus made them available to the residents of the Bratunac municipality, as well as to all other persons residing in the areas of the Srebrenica and Bratunac municipalities during the days before and around 11 July, which gathering was then held on 11 July 2023 on the Miloš Obilić Square, Bratunac, at which Vojin Pavlović gave a speech, and nationalist music was played publicly, although he was aware that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia had issued final judgments in the cases against Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić, establishing the commission of the criminal act of genocide against Bosniaks in the Srebrenica municipality, and he was aware that 11 July was designated by the aforementioned judgments as the day of the commission of the criminal act of genocide, on which date the commemoration and burial of the identified victims of the genocide in Srebrenica is held every year, where a large number of people gather, and that holding a rally entitled "11 JULY, THE DAY OF THE LIBERATION OF SREBRENICA; THANKS TO THE ARMY OF REPUBLIKA SRPSKA" on that very day could incite violence or hatred directed against the Bosniak people or individual members of the Bosniak people, all of which caused anxiety and fear among some residents in that area, especially among the Bosniak returnees to the municipality, including V.D., S.A., H.R., E.R. and E.M.