On 27 March 2025 the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina pronounced a Trial Judgment in the Zdravko Čvorić case, finding the accused Zdravko Čvorić guilty that by the acts described in the operative part of the Judgment he committed the criminal offense of War Crimes against Civilians under Article 142(1) of the Criminal Code of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (CC SFRY).

The Court sentenced the accused to 7 (seven) years of imprisonment, with the time he spent in pre-trial custody, from 5 May 2024 onwards, being credited towards his sentence.

The accused Zdravko Čvorić was found guilty because, during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the armed conflict between the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Army of Republika Srpska, in the territory of Zvornik municipality, in his capacity as a reserve policeman at the SJB Zvornik, he acted in breach of the rules of international humanitarian law in the manner that, in the evening hours of 28 July 1992, as a prison guard at the prison located on the premises of the “Divič” football club, in the Zvornik neighborhood of Divič, where Bosniak civilians from the Zvornik municipality were unlawfully detained, including the victim K-1, armed with a rifle, he took the victim out of the room where she was detained on the pretext that she should clean the toilet, so he  took her down to the Drina river bank to fill up a bucket with water, and then took her to a nearby garage, all the time armed with a rifle with a bayonet on, cursing her and threatening to kill her, and forced her to sexual intercourse (rape).