Status conference in the case v. Goran Vujović et al.

22.04.2014, 09:45
A status conference in the case v. Goran Vujović et al. before the Section I for War Crimes of the Court of BIH is scheduled to take place on 23 April 2014 at 08.15 a.m. in Courtroom 8.

 

On 27 December 2013, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina confirmed the Indictment under which the Accused Goran Vujović and Miroslav Duka are charged with the criminal offense of Crimes against Humanity in violation of Article 172(1)(h) of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

 

The Indictment alleges, among other things,  that in the period from early June 1992 to late December 1992, during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, within a widespread and systematic attack of military, police and paramilitary formations of Serb Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and later Republika Srpska targeting Bosniak and Croat civilians  of the area of Eastern Herzegovina, the territory of municipalities of Bileća, Nevesinje and Gacko, the Accused  Goran Vujović, in the capacity as the Chief of Public Security Station in Bileća and  Miroslav Duka, in the capacity as police Commander  in the Public Security Station in Bileća, enabled and organized imprisonment of Bosniak and Croat civilians on the premises of Public Security Station Bileća building,  premises of the so-called Stari zatvor (old prison) in Bileća, premises of Đački dom (pupils’ hostel) in Bileća, where the imprisoned civilians were held in inhumane conditions and subjugated to killings, torture and severe physical and mental abuse.