BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4903

HR-BULLETIN-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4903 HINA Zagreb 24 March 2003THREE MEMBERS OF GOSPIC GROUP SENTENCED TO PRISON BY RIJEKA COURTRIJEKA, March 24 (Hina) - The Rijeka County Court on Monday pronounced Tihomir Oreskovic, Mirko Norac and Stjepan Grandic guilty of war crimes committed against civilians in the Gospic area in the autumn of 1991, while indictee Ivica Rozic was acquitted and released. The verdicts are not final. Judge Ika Saric, who presided over the panel of judges conducting the trial, read out the verdict sentencing Oreskovic to 15, Norac to 12 and Grandic to ten years in prison. Explaining the acquittal of Ivica Rozic, Saric said that it had not been proven during the trial that he had committed the crimes from his indictment. The panel of judges established in the explanation of the verdict that Oreskovic and Norac had ordered the abduction of civilians from their homes and cellars, their imprisonment and execution, as well as that Norac had personal