The appeals chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has reduced Radoslav Brdanin’s sentence from 32 years to 30 years. Although upholding most of the trial chamber’s original findings, the appeals chamber overturned the findings that Brdanin’s conduct had a substantial effect on the commission of torture in detention camps run by Bosnian Serbs in north-western Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992 and that Brdanin was responsible for the wanton destruction of Bosanska Krupa.
The full text of the summary of the judgment, as read out by Judge Meron, is here: http://www.un.org/icty/pressreal/2007/pr1151e-summary.htm
In other news, the appeals chamber dismissed all of the appeals of Croatian Defense Council member Miroslav Bralo. Bralo had previously been sentenced to 20 years after pleading guilty. The summary of the judgment is here: http://www.un.org/icty/pressreal/2007/pr1150e-summary.htm