The trial chamber presided by Judge Jean-Claude Antonetti decided to provisionally release Jadranko Prlic, Bruno Stojic, Slobodan Praljak, Milivoj Petkovic, Valentin Coric and Berislav Pusic on June 11 but the decision was published only today. Under the decision, the terms and date of the release are confidential.
The six Bosnian Croats are charged on personal and command responsibility with 26 counts of crimes against humanity, grave breaches of Geneva conventions and the laws and customs of war, committed through the persecution of dozens of thousands of Bosnian Muslims and other non-Croats, murder, rape, deportation, detention of civilians, inhumane and cruel treatment, destruction of property, plunder, unlawful attacks and terrorising of civilians.
The six former senior political and military figures surrendered to the Hague tribunal in April 2004. In September that year they were provisionally released pending trial, which began in April 2005.