The appellate chamber of the Court of BiH convicted two former soldiers in the Bosnian Army’s Fifth Corps for abuse of prisoners in 1995-1996.
The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court on Wednesday convicted ex-soldier Adil Ruznic, a former security officer in the Bosnian Army’s Fifth Corps, of giving signals to guards in the Adil Besic barracks in Bihac to hit prisoners who were being interrogated, while Mustafic was found guilty of hitting the detainees himself.
The crimes were committed between September 1995 and January 1996.
A third defendant, Mehura Selimovic, was acquitted of all charges.
Ruznic and Mustafic were each sentenced to three and a half years in prison, less than half the length of the sentences they were given in their first trial.
