The person deprived of liberty is Slađan Pajić, born in 1970 in Loznica, Republic    of Serbia, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

This suspect is subject to investigation of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina as he is suspected of acting, as a soldier of the Military Post 7344 Vlasenica, in violation of the rules of the international humanitarian law in time of war, from May through December of 1992, during the armed conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina between the Army of Republika Srpska and Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the territory of the Municipality of Vlasenica.   

He is suspected of participating in multiple rapes and sexual abuses of one Bosniak woman and another underage victim, as well as in inhumane treatment, infliction of severe physical and mental suffering and torture of imprisoned Bosniak civilian men, on the premises of the Secretariat for Internal Affairs in Vlasenica.    

Slađan Pajić is suspected to have committed the criminal offense of War Crime against Civilian Population, as referred to in Article 142, Paragraph 1 in conjunction with Article 22 of the Criminal Code of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.     

Following the deprivation of liberty, the suspect will be handed over to the Prosecutor in charge of the case who will question him and subsequently decide whether to file a motion for custody or a motion seeking prohibiting measures in accordance with the law.