The Appellate Division Panel of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina will Tuesday, 21 December 2021, pronounce an Appeals Judgment in the Adem Kostjerevac case. Judgment pronouncement has been scheduled for 1 p.m. in Courtroom 8.
In its Decision of 24 August 2021, which was sent out on 26 October 2021, the Appellate Division Panel of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina upheld the appeal filed by the BiH Prosecutor's Office from the Trial Judgment of the Court of BiH No. S1 1 K 018560 20 K of 12 March 2021. The Trial Judgment was revoked in its entirety and a trial was ordered before the Appellate Division Panel of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
On 12 March 2021 the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina pronounced a Trial Judgment dismissing the charges that the accused Adem Kostjerevac committed the criminal offense of War Crimes against Civilians under Article 142(1) of the Criminal Code of SFRY.
In relation to the accused Adem Kostjerevac, charges had been dismissed that during the war and armed conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as a member of the Military Police of the 1st Muslim Brigade of Zvornik, Army of BiH, between 18 September 1992 and 4 October 1992, in the territory of the Zvornik municipality, he acted in violation of the rules of international humanitarian law and Article 3(1), Subparagraphs a) and c), and Article 27 of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of 12 August 1949, by forcing a female civilian into sexual intercourse.
