Bosnian state court in Sarajevo

The trial of Zijad Srabovic, Refik Morankic, Ahmet Bajric, Abid Arapcic, Senaid Cosic, Pasaga Cajic, Samir Dzambic and Mirsad Zilic, who are charged with the inhumane treatment, torture and murder of civilians detained in the city of Lukavac and nearby Modrac from June to October 1992, opened at the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Tuesday.

Prosecutor Marijana Cobovic told the appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Wednesday that it had been proved during the retrial that Samir Kesmer and Mirsad Menzilovic raped an underage girl in Sarajevo in May 1993.

"The injured party said at the main trial that she had been raped multiple times by the defendants," Cobovic said.

The retrial of Dragan Janjic began on Monday at the appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo after part of the first-instance verdict, under which he was sentenced to seven years for rape in the Foca area in August 1992, was quashed.

The hearing opened with the restatement of testimonies given by the woman who was raped and a defence witness.

Ahmet Sejdic told the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Friday that he was innocent, as his defence called for his acquittal on all charges in the indictment accusing him of the inhumane treatment of Serb civilians and prisoners of war in the period between July 1992 and February 1993.

The Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Wednesday found Elfeta Veseli guilty of killing a 12-year-old boy, Slobodan Stojanovic, on an undetermined date in the second half of July or first half of August 1992 in the village of Bajrici-Novo Selo.

Former Bosnian Serb military policemen Dragan Marjanovic, Sasa Gavranovic, Vitomir Devic, Zoran Sljuka and Dragomir Kezunovic launched an appeal against their convictions for crimes against humanity at the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Friday.

The men's defence lawyers called on the court's appeals chamber to acquit them or order a new trial.

The defendants (on the right, first and second rows) with their lawyers in court. Photo: Bosnian state court.

Turkey has asked Bosnia and Herzegovina to extradite Ozer Ozsaray on suspicion that he is a member of a terrorist organisation aiming to overthrow the state, a hearing at the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo was told on Thursday.