The hearing before the Appellate Panel of Section I for War Crimes of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) in the case of Gojko Janković has been scheduled for Tuesday, 23 October 2007 in courtroom 5, starting at 2.00pm.

On 16 February 2007 the Trial Panel handed down the first instance verdict finding Gojko Janković guilty of Crimes against humanity and sentencing him to 34 years long term imprisonment.

The Trial Panel found that as a leader of a military unit within the Foča brigade of the Army of the Srpska Republika BiH, Gojko Janković participated in a widespread or systematic attack of the army, police and paramilitary formations on the non-Serb civilian population of the Foča Municipality between April 1992 and November 1993. 

On 2 August 1992, Gojko Janković together with Dragoljub Kunarac and Dragutin Vuković took three minor female detainees from a house in Aladža to a house in the village of Trnovača.  One of the detainees was held in the house for a few days while the other two were held until January 1993.  During that time the Accused and Dragoljub Kunarac kept these two detainees in sexual slavery.

The above verdict was appealed by the defence counsel for Gojko Janković.