The Panel of the Appellate Division of the Court of BiH sent out a Second Instance Judgment in the case of Mustafa Stovrag dismissing as ill-founded the appeals filed by the BiH Prosecutor’s Office and defense counsel for the  accused Mustafa Stovrag, and upholding the Trial Judgment of the Court of BiH dated 24 January 2025.         

The Judgment of the Court of BiH dated 24 January 2025 found the accused Mustafa Stovrag guilty of commission, by the acts described in Sections I, II and III of the Judgment’s operative part, of the criminal offense War Crimes against Prisoners of War under Article 144 of the Criminal Code of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (CC SFRY), and imposed on him a sentence of imprisonment for a term of 3 (three) years.

The Trial Judgment found the accused guilty because, during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the armed conflict between the Army BiH and the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS), in the territory of the Rudo, Višegrad, Goražde and Foča municipalities, during the period between October 1992 and November 1995, in the capacity of a member of the Army BiH, and of a member of the MUP RBiH, Public Security Station (SJB) Goražde, during the apprehension of prisoners of war-members of the Army of Republika Srpska, from the place of Strmica to the place of Brodari, Višegrad municipality, in an improvised military prison of the Army BiH in a house owned by Nedžib Hurem in Kaoštica, Međeđa, Višegrad municipality, and on the premises of the Military-Investigative Prison of the East Bosnia Operative Group (EBOG) of the Army BiH, located in the building of the former ZOIL company in Goražde, Mustafa Stovrag acted in contravention of the rules of international humanitarian law violating  Article 3(1) a) of the III Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War of 12 August 1949 and Articles 86 and 87 of Additional Protocol I, by deprivation of liberty and other inhuman acts of similar character, committed intentionally to inflict severe suffering or serious physical or mental injury or harm to health. 

No appeal lies from the Second Instance Judgment.