Norway convicts Bosnian Muslim

Published December 3, 2008

OSLO, Dec 2: A Bosnian Muslim was jailed for five years on Tuesday for crimes against Serb civilians during the war in Bosnia in 1992 in the first war crimes case in Norway since the trials of Norwegians who collaborated with the Nazis.

The case was the first test of new Norwegian legislation on crimes against humanity and war crimes adopted in March.

Mirsad Repak, 42, who came to Norway in 1993 as an asylum-seeker and obtained Norwegian citizenship in 2001, has pleaded not guilty since the start of the trial on Aug 27.

The prosecutor had demanded 10 years in prison for the crimes that were said to have taken place in connection with the internment of civilians in Stolac and at the Dretelj prison camp in southern Bosnia.—Reuters

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