Croatia's Parole Commission decided on Monday that Fikret Abdic, who is serving in Pula a 15-year sentence for war crimes committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, should be released in March 2012, Croatian Television (HTV) reported last night.
The Karlovac County Court sentenced Abdic, who holds Bosnian and Croatian citizenship, in July 2002 to the maximum prison sentence of 20 years but the Croatian Supreme Court eventually reduced it to 15. He was found guilty of breaching the Bosnian constitution by declaring the Autonomous Province Western Bosnia and, in his capacity as people's defence supreme commander, of opening camps and centres for the detention of those opposing the province. At least three people died as a result of mistreatment in those camps, in which about 5,000 people were detained.
Abdic would have served his full sentence on 6 June 2016.
