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Lelek: State Prosecution appeals verdict

Zeljko Lelek
Zeljko Lelek

25 August 2008  The State Prosecution files an appeal complaining about the acquitting part of the verdict against Zeljko Lelek and the duration of the criminal and legal sanctions.

The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina filed appealed the first instance verdict against Zeljko Lelek, sentencing him to 13 years' imprisonment for crime against humanity in the Visegrad area.

As per the announcement made by the State Prosecution, the appeal referred to the acquitting part of the verdict and the duration of the sentence.

The Prosecution considers that "certain criminal procedure and criminal law provisions" have been violated, while "the factual status has been incorrectly determined".

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina pronounced the first instance verdict on May 23 this year. It found Lelek guilty, as member of reserve police forces, of having participated in the deportation, rape, sexual abuse and unlawful detention of Bosniaks from the Visegrad area in the course of 1992.

As stated in the verdict Lelek was sentenced for having participated in taking away of Hasan Ahmetspahic and Nail Osmanbegovic from Crnca village, as well as the sexual abuse of Zejneba Osmanbegovic.

Besides that he was found guilty of having raped two witnesses in the course of June 1992. The two women were detained in "Vilina vlas" spa, which was turned into a detention camp for women in the course of the war.

Lelek was found guilty of unlawful detention of civilians in the premises of the Police Station in Visegrad. He was acquitted of the sub-charges that he abused one of the prisoners.

By the first instance verdict Lelek was acquitted of the charges that he participated in the taking away and killing of a group of men on the Drina river banks and the deportation of the Tabakovic, Cocalic and Memisevic families.

The Prosecution's appeal has been forwarded to the Appellate Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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