Zaim Laličić Pled Not Guilty

02.02.2015, 13:45
At the plea hearing held before Section I for War Crimes of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the accused Zaim Laličić pled not guilty.

 

On 6 January 2015, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina confirmed the Indictment which charged the accused Zaim Laličić with committing the criminal offense of War Crimes against Civilians in violation of Article 173(1)(c) of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as read with Article 180(1) of the same Code.

 

The Indictment alleged that, during the wartime in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and during the armed conflict between the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Army of Republika Srpska, on an unidentified date in the winter 1992/1993, in the Ilidža municipality, as a member of the VJ 5063 of the 1st Corps of the Army BiH, and in the capacity of a guard in the detention facility, in an unfinished basement of a residential building in the settlement of Hrasnica, by the use of force and threat, the accused Zaim Laličić raped and sexually abused a woman, and participated in the mental and physical abuse of a civilian.