On 12 January 2026, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina confirmed the indictment in the case of Nesib Talić et al., which charges the accused Nesib Talić, Jusuf Karalić, Našid Delalić and Sabahudin Sarajlić with the criminal offense of War Crimes against Civilians under the Criminal Code of BiH.
The accused are charged that, during the war and armed conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina between members of the Croat Defense Council on the one side, and members of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the other, in the territory of Zenica municipality, in the period from January 1993 until late March 1993, they acted contrary to the rules of international humanitarian law towards the captured Croat and Serb civilians on the premises of the Music School in Zenica, which served as a detention facility, in such a way that the accused Nesib Talić, in his capacity as Assistant Commander for Security of the 7th Muslim Brigade, failed to prevent the unlawful detention and inhumane treatment of Croat and Serb civilians by members of the military police platoon of the 7th Muslim Brigade of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina between 26 January 1993 and late October 1993, which civilians were being brought and unlawfully detained in the Music School in Zenica, although he knew about the unlawful detention of prisoners and abuse, and that one prisoner died as a result of the beating, while another was killed during an escape attempt, he failed to inform the brigade commander about everything and take the necessary and justified measures to prevent the aforementioned actions, which he was obliged to do due to the position he held, but by his inaction, that is, by failing to take measures to prevent members of the military police platoon from committing these actions, he agreed and decisively contributed to the unlawful detention, murder and inhumane treatment of the captured civilians.
It is further alleged that the accused Jusuf Karalić, in his capacity as commander of the military police platoon of the 7th Muslim Brigade, although he knew or had reason to know that his subordinate members of the military police platoon of the 7th Muslim Brigade of the RBiH Army in the territory of the Zenica municipality were systematically and unlawfully abducting and detaining Croat and Serb civilians on those premises and that they were treating them inhumanely, and thus, as the military officer responsible for the actions taken by his subordinate members of the military police platoon, he failed to take necessary and reasonable measures to prevent the acts of his subordinates and to punish the perpetrators, in which way he contributed to the creation of the perception and belief among his subordinate military police officers that such conduct was permissible and unpunishable. The accused Našid Delalić and Sabahudin Sarajlić are charged with having, as members of the military police platoon of the 7th Muslim Brigade of ARBiH, alone or together with other members of the military police platoon known to them, repeatedly inhumanly treated captured civilians, by which actions they inflicted severe physical and mental pain and suffering on them.