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Vuk Ratković’s eight-year prison sentence upheld for wartime rape in Višegrad

FENA Press release

SARAJEVO, February 4 (FENA) - Former Bosnian Serb soldier Vuk Ratković’s conviction for the multiple rape of a women in Višegrad during the war in 1992 and 1993 was upheld on appeal.

The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court on Monday confirmed the verdict convicting Vuk Ratković, a former member of the Višegrad Brigade of the Bosnian Serb Army, of raping a woman in Višegrad on three occasions between June 1992 and January 1993.

The court upheld the eight-year jail sentence ordered by the first-instance verdict.

It also confirmed the part of the sentence ordering Ratković to pay his victim 35,000 BAM (around 17,900 euros) in compensation.

The defense had appealed against the first-instance verdict because it claimed there had been violations of the criminal proceedings and that facts had been wrongly and incompletely determined, among other alleged shortcomings, but the appeals chamber rejected these arguments.

Monday’s verdict cannot be appealed.

Ratković is also on trial in a separate case before the state court for allegedly committing war crimes in Štrpci in Bosnia in 1993, when Serb soldiers stopped a train, seized 20 passengers, robbed them,  tortured and killed them, BIRN reports.

(FENA) S. R.

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