US extradites former Bosnian prison guard over war crimes

03 Jul, 2015

The United States extradited Thursday to Bosnia a former Muslim prison guard accused to have abused Serb civilian detainees during the 1992-1995 war, prosecutor's office said. Almaz Nezirovic, one of rare Muslims to be indicted by Bosnia's prosecutors for war crimes, is suspected to have participated in "torture" of Serbs in a detention camp in the northern Bosnian region of Derventa between April and July 1992.

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