War crimes

Glavas to serve his sentence in Zenica prison

17.12.2010 u 21:22

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Former Croatian lawmaker Branimir Glavas, for whom the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has upheld an eight-year prison term for war crimes against civilians committed in the eastern Croatian city of Osijek in the early 1990s, will be transferred from Sarajevo to serve his sentence in prison in the central Bosnian city of Zenica, the court confirmed to media on Friday.

"In the course of today the court will issue an order for the transfer of the convict Glavas from the court's detention unit to serve his prison sentence in Zenica," court spokeswoman Selma Hadzic said.

She could not say when exactly Glavas would be transferred to Zenica prison, adding that it depended on technical matters handled by the judicial police, but made it clear that it would happen within the next day or two.

Glavas has been in the custody of the State Court in Sarajevo since September 20, when the trial chamber upheld the eight-year prison term handed down by the County Court in Zagreb. The ruling became final on December 14, when it was upheld by the appeals chamber.

This is the first time a Bosnian court has upheld a ruling by a Croatian court based on an agreement signed between the two countries to deter the accused from fleeing one country to the other to evade prison.