PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE APPEALS DECISION ON TERMINATION OF CUSTODY FOR ACCUSED OF CRIMINAL OFFENCE OF TERRORISM

A prosecutor of the Terrorism Section of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH filed an appeal requesting that the suspect Jahja Vuković (1999) be ordered into custody.

A prosecutor of the Terrorism Section of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH filed an appeal against the decision of the Court of BiH terminating custody for the suspect Jahja Vuković (1999), who is on trial for the criminal offence of organising a terrorist group referred to in Article 202d (2), in conjunction with paragraph (1) thereof, all in conjunction with Article 201 of the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The accused is charged with having resided in Syria and Iraq, participating in terrorist activities and fighting within the structures of “Al Nusra Front” and the so-called “ISIL”, which were declared terrorist organisations by the UN Security Council.

After the collapse and defeat of these terrorist organisations, the accused hid in Turkey where he was arrested and extradited to the BiH judiciary.

Considering that he did not voluntarily surrender to the BiH judiciary, that after the collapse of the structures of the so-called “ISIL” he hid in the territory of the Republic of Turkey and that the activity of locating him and his extradition were the outcomes of a coordinated action of BiH institutions and partner institutions within the anti-terrorist coalition, and for significant violation of the provisions of the criminal procedure and erroneously or incompletely established facts, the Prosecutor’s Office filed an appeal maintaining that the reasons for custody described in Article 132 (1) (a) and (c) of the Criminal Procedure Code of BiH still exist and requested the re-ordering the accused into custody.