On 2 March 2023 the Appellate Division Panel of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina sent out an Appeals Judgment in the case of Momčilo Tešić, dismissing as ill-founded the appeal filed by the Prosecution, whereas the appeals filed by the accused Momčilo Tešić and his defense counsel were partly granted, so that the Trial Judgment delivered by the Court on 7 September 2022 was modified in the part concerning the sentencing decision in the manner that the accused Momčilo Tešić is now sentenced to 18 (eighteen) years of imprisonment, while in the remaining part the appeals filed by the accused and his defense counsel were dismissed as ill-founded, and the Trial Judgment was upheld. No appeal lies from this Judgment.

The Trial Judgment of 7 September 2022 found the accused Momčilo Tešić guilty of the criminal offense of Crimes against Humanity under Article 172 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and sentenced him to 20 (twenty) years of imprisonment.

The accused Momčilo Tešić was found guilty that during the widespread and systematic attack launched between 6 July and 19 July 1995 by the Army of Republika Srpska and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Republika Srpska, which targeted the Bosniak civilian population of the “UN safe area” of Srebrenica, knowing of the attack and that his acts formed part of the attack, he committed persecution of the Bosniak civilian population on political, national, cultural, ethnic and religious grounds by way of murder.