At a plea hearing before a preliminary hearing judge of Section I for War Crimes of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) the accused Niset Ramić pleaded not guilty to all counts of the indictment.

The indictment alleges that on 20 June 1992, as the member of a sabotage unit of the Visoko Territorial Defence Headquarters, the accused committed breaches of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Personsw in time of War.  It is further alleged that, after a group of Serb civilians was surrounded and deprived of liberty, the accused escorted them to the Youth club in the village of Hlapčevići, Visoko municipality.  On their way towards the Youth club, the accused allegedly stopped the group and shot a number of them using a machine gun.   The shooting allegedly caused the death of four persons and wounding of two.