The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina will deliver a trial judgment in the case of Malko Koroman on Monday, 24 January 2022. The judgment is scheduled to be delivered at 09:00 hours in courtroom 4.

The accused Malko Koroman is charged with the criminal offense of Crimes against Humanity under Article 172(1)(h) of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina /CC BiH/, taken in conjunction with Article 180(1) of the CC BiH.

According to the charges, between the end of March 1992 and December 1992, as part of a widespread and systematic attack of the Army of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (subsequently: Army of the Republika Srpska), the Ministry of Interior of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (subsequently: the Republika Srpska), Serbian paramilitary formations directed against the Bosniak civilian population of Pale municipality, the accused Malko Koroman, with knowledge of that attack and that his acts constituted part thereof, performed the duties of Chief of the Pale Public Security Station /Pale SJB/. The Accused managed the Pale SJB by organizing its work, directing and coordinating the activities of members of the active and reserve police of the Pale SJB and the Special Police Unit of the Pale SJB, being responsible for the lawful performance of duties and tasks of police offices of the Pale SJB as their superior and having effective control over them. As charged, the accused, acting with discriminatory intent, persecuted the Bosniak civilians of Pale municipality on national, ethnic, cultural and religious grounds by way of unlawful imprisonment, inhuman detention in inhumane conditions in violation of fundamental rules of international humanitarian law.