Bosnia criticized over Serb, Croat prisoners
The European Court of Human Rights has condemned the poor treatment of prisoners in Bosnia-Herzegovina prisons.
Wednesday, 28.05.2008.
10:39
The European Court of Human Rights has condemned the poor treatment of prisoners in Bosnia-Herzegovina prisons. Four former prisoners—Bosnian Serbs Milorad Rodic, Vlastimir Pusara and Zoran Knezevic, as well as Bosnian Croat Ivan Bakovic—who served sentences in Zenica central prison from 2004-2005 for war crimes against Muslims during the 1992-1995 war, decided to sue the state. Bosnia criticized over Serb, Croat prisoners The former prisoners claimed that while they had been in the prison, 90 percent of whose inmates were Bosniaks *Bosnian Muslims) they had been persecuted and made a target of violence and ethnically motivated attacks. They began a hunger strike in June 2005 in order to draw public attention to their plight. The prisoners were isolated for 20 days, and an inquiry was opened into their claims. They were then transferred to a prison in the Republic of Srpska, only to be transferred again to a jail in Mostar in the Bosnian Federation. The European Court in Strasbourg stated that “when crimes committed during wartime are in question, inter-ethnic relations are always tense, and violent incidents motivated by ethnic elements are relatively common.” The court stated that holding the prisoners in Zenica “put their physical integrity at great risk,” and unanimously ruled that Article 3 of the European Convention for Human Rights, outlawing inhumane and degrading treatment, had been violated. The court awarded a total of EUR 14,000 in damages to the four men.
Bosnia criticized over Serb, Croat prisoners
The former prisoners claimed that while they had been in the prison, 90 percent of whose inmates were Bosniaks *Bosnian Muslims) they had been persecuted and made a target of violence and ethnically motivated attacks.They began a hunger strike in June 2005 in order to draw public attention to their plight.
The prisoners were isolated for 20 days, and an inquiry was opened into their claims.
They were then transferred to a prison in the Republic of Srpska, only to be transferred again to a jail in Mostar in the Bosnian Federation.
The European Court in Strasbourg stated that “when crimes committed during wartime are in question, inter-ethnic relations are always tense, and violent incidents motivated by ethnic elements are relatively common.”
The court stated that holding the prisoners in Zenica “put their physical integrity at great risk,” and unanimously ruled that Article 3 of the European Convention for Human Rights, outlawing inhumane and degrading treatment, had been violated.
The court awarded a total of EUR 14,000 in damages to the four men.
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