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Case name

Zvornik III (AB et al.)

Case number

KTRZ 8/07

Number of victims

14

Persons indicted

Defendants:
AA and AB - convicted
AV - acquitted of charges

Rank(s) of person(s) indicted

lower military

Indictment date

Case stage

finally resolved

Duration of proceedings since trial commencement

4 years 6 months

Witnesses examined

38

Date and outcome of the first instance verdict

First instance judgment / years in prison:
AA: 15
AB: 1.5
AV: acquitted of charges

Date and outcome of decision on appeal

Decision on appeal / years in prison:
AA: 20
AB: 3
AV: first instance judgment confirmed

Date and outcome of verdict in new trial

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Criminal offence

war crime against civilian population under art. 142 (1) re art. 22 (co-perpetration) of the FRY Criminal Act

Background facts

According to the court's findings, over the period between May and July 1992, defendants AA and AB, at the time members of the Serbian Territorial Defence force, engaged in a campaign of terror against Bosnian civilians confined in makeshift prisons at the sites of Čelopek, Ekonomija and Ciglana. The campaign included inhumane acts, torture and several killings (see Zvornik I).

Procedural remarks

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