SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) -- The War Crimes Chamber of the BiH Court on Friday (May 23rd) sentenced Zeljko Lelek, a former Bosnian Serb policeman, to 13 years in prison. It found him guilty of persecution and torture of Bosnian Muslims in the town of Visegrad and the rape of Muslim women in the early 1990s.
In other news, the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague (ICTY) on Thursday provisionally released two Bosnian Serbs and a Kosovo journalist. Radivoje Miletic, a former high-ranking Bosnian Serb army commander, and Ljubomir Borovcanin, former deputy commander in the Republika Srpska (RS)'s Ministry of Internal Affairs, received permission to spend May 26th till May 30th 2008 in RS. The court will hear the first defence witness on June 2nd.
The ICTY also provisionally released Baton Haxhiu, a well-known Kosovo journalist. He was charged with contempt for an article he wrote in December, in which he identified a protected witness who testified against former Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj. Haxhiu pleaded not guilty earlier this week. (Fena, RTRS, Reuters, ICTY website - 23/04/08)
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