On 11 November 2024 the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina delivered a Trial Judgment in the case of Andrija Bjelošević, which, pursuant to Article 284c) CPC BiH, acquitted the accused Andrija Bjelošević of the charges, for it was not proven that by the acts described in the operative part of the Judgment he committed the criminal offense he has been charged with in the Indictment – War Crimes against Civilians under Article 142(1) of the CC SFRY.

The accused Andrija Bjelošević was charged that, between November 1992 and late April 1993, in the town of Derventa, during the war and armed conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina between the Army of the Serb Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, subsequently Republika Srpska, and the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in his capacity as the Head of the Security Service Center (CSB) Doboj, of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Serb Republic of BiH, subsequently the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Republika Srpska, a member of the Staff of the Serb Republic MUP charged with managing and commanding the overall MUP forces and a member of the War Staff within the Crisis Staff of the “Serb Municipality of Doboj,” he proceeded in violation of the rules of international humanitarian law, in breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War from 1949, in the manner that, on at least four occasions, he forced a civilian, by the use of force and threat of direct attack on her life and limb, to sexual intercourse (rape), by which he would have ultimately committed the criminal offense he was charged with.

An appeal from the Judgment may be filed with the Appellate Division Panel of the Court of BiH within 15 days of the day when a written copy of the Judgment was received.