The police reported that the arrestees were two persons suspected of illegal stay in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and they they were apprehended in Zenica-Doboj canton in cooperation with other police and security services of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The television of the Croat-Muslim federation reported that one of the arrested men were Syrian Aiman Awad, a former member of El-Mudzahid unit, who is at the helm of an association that offers legal aid to mujahideen stripped of Bosnian citizenship.
Awad has also been stripped of Bosnian citizenship and is facing extradition to Syria.