The Appellate Division Panel of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina delivered an Appeals Judgment in the Dušan Ćulibrk case, dismissing as ill-founded the appeal filed by defense counsel for the accused Dušan Ćulibrk, and upholding the Trial Judgment of 15 August 2022.
The Trial Judgment of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina found the accused Dušan Ćulibrk guilty of the criminal offense of War Crimes against Civilians under Article 142(1) as read with Article 22 CC SFRY and sentenced him to 20 (twenty) years of imprisonment. According to the same judgment, the time the accused spent in custody, from 14 February 2022 to 21 March 2022, and from 15 August 2022 onwards, shall be credited towards the imposed sentence of imprisonment.
The accused has been found guilty that during the state of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the armed conflict between the army and police of the Serb Republic of BiH, subsequently Republika Srpska, and the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the municipality of Bosanska Krupa, between July and September 1992, in his capacity as a member of a reserve police unit at the Bosanska Krupa Public Security Station, in the territory of Bosanska Krupa municipality, acted in violation of the rules of international humanitarian law, and the Geneva Convention, by having participated, as a co-perpetrator, in the killing of 51 Bosniak and Croat civilians.
No appeal lies from this Judgment, announced the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
