On 19 November 2007 the Appellate Panel of Section I for War Crimes partially upheld the appeal of the Defence Counsel of Goran Damjanović regarding the Count 2 of the Trial Panel’s verdict of 18 June 2006 which was revoked and ordered a new trial before the Appellate Panel. The Appellate Panel in remaining parts confirmed the Trial Panel’s verdict.
On 18 June 2006 the Trial Panel sentenced Goran Damjanović to 12 years of imprisonment and Zoran Damjanović to 10 years and 6 months of imprisonment.
The Trial Panel found Goran and Zoran Damjanović guilty of War crimes against civilians. They were found guilty that on 2 June 1992, in the area of Bojnik in Sarajevo, as members of the Army of the Serb Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, armed with rifles and in military uniforms, together with other soldiers participated in the beating of a group of between 20 and 30 male Bosniak prisoners. Some of the prisoners had already been wounded after their capture the same day by Serb military forces at the settlement of Ahatovići. The beating lasted over a period of between one and three hours with the use of rifles, batons, bottles, kicks and punches, resulting in the victims' severe physical and mental pain and suffering. The motivation for the beating, according to the Trial Panel's verdict, was to punish the prisoners for putting up resistance against an attack on Ahatovići as well as the fact that victims were Bosniaks.
