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Balkan Insight (27 March 2023)

Milica Stojanovic

The Humanitarian Law Centre NGO criticised a Serbian court’s decision to reduce the sentence handed down to wartime police inspector Osman Osmanovic for prisoner abuse at a detention camp in Bosnia in 1992.

The Belgrade-based Humanitarian Law Centre on Monday criticised the Belgrade Court of Appeals’ decision to reduce former police inspector Osman Osmanovic’s war crimes sentence for prisoner abuse from five to three-and-a-half years in prison.

“This course of proceedings conducted in Serbia against citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina does not contribute to strengthening regional cooperation or the trust of victims in the institutions of Serbia that process these crimes,” the HLC said.

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