The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has sentenced Mehmed Alešević to two and a half years in prison in a retrial for crimes against civilians in 1994 and 1995 in Bužim.
The verdict was handed down after the plea agreement that Alešević signed with the State Prosecutor’s Office was accepted, BIRN writes
Alešević admitted in the agreement that, as a member of the Military Police of the 505th Bužim Brigade of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, he participated in the physical abuse of civilians and prisoners of war during the conflict with the People’s Defense of the Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia.
He was convicted by a final verdict on nine counts for these crimes, committed in an improvised prison in the former Radoč Hotel, and sentenced to five years in prison. The decision to retrial was made after one of the witnesses was convicted of giving false testimony at Alešević’s trial in June 2024.
The retrial of Alešević began in mid-July this year when the Prosecution read out the amended indictment, BIRN BiH reports.
