The Appellate Division of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina confirmed the first-instance verdict by which Slaviša Đerić was sentenced to three years and Nenad Ujić to four years in prison for inhumane treatment of civilians detained in Rogatica, while the three were acquitted, Detektor learns.
As Nina Kisić, Zoran Nešković’s lawyer, confirmed for Detektor, the Appellate Division confirmed the first-instance verdict by which Slaviša Đerić was sentenced to three years, and Nenad Ujić to four years, while Nešković, Panto Pantović and Pero Despet were acquitted.
“I received the verdict by which my client was legally acquitted,” said Kisić.
In July of last year, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina sentenced Đerić to three years and Ujić to four years in prison for the inhumane treatment of civilians detained in Rogatica. By the same verdict, Nešković, Pantović and Despet were acquitted, as were Đerić and Ujić for certain counts.
Đerić and Ujić, former members of the Military Police, guards in the “Rasadnik” detention facility, were found guilty of inhumane treatment of civilians from the areas of Žepa, Rogatica and Srebrenica in the period from July to December 1995. The first-instance verdict established that they beat the detainees and caused them physical and psychological suffering in other ways.
An acquittal was pronounced on 15 counts of the indictment. One of those points is the inhumane treatment and killing of Imam and President of the War Presidency Žepa Mehmed Hajrić, which related to all five. Nešković was acquitted of the charge that, as the commander of the detention facility, he did not prevent or punish the perpetrators.
No appeal is allowed against this verdict.
