Bosnia Reduces Ex-Policeman’s Sentence for Torturing Prisoners

The Bosnian state court on Thursday partially upheld an appeal from former policeman Kahro Vejzovic and cut his sentence from six years in prison to four years.

Vejzovic was convicted of torturing captured Serb civilians in the village of Stupari during wartime between June and September 1992.

The court was told during the trial that Vejzovic hit and kicked the Serb prisoners in their heads and genitals using his fists, boots, a baton and a rifle butt, put a pistol and a knife to their throats, threatened them and forced them to eat paper.

Vejzovic was initially acquitted under a first-instance verdict in August 2018, but convicted under a second-instance verdict in May this year after a partial retrial.

Thursday's third-instance verdict is final and cannot be appealed.

 

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