Bosnia court won't detain convicted war criminals before new trials


  • World
  • Thursday, 05 Dec 2013

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnia's war crimes court on Thursday declined a prosecutor's request to detain nine convicted Bosnian Serb war criminals who were released last month pending new trials, angering survivors of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.

The court freed 10 such convicts after the European Court of Human Rights (ECoHR) ruled last July in a separate case that the legal rights of two of them were violated due to the application of a criminal code more stringent than the one in force when the crimes were committed.

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