THE DEFENSE WILL PRESENT ITS APPEAL TOMORROW AND REQUEST THAT VERDICT AGAINST PRESIDENT OF SRPSKA BE ANNULLED

SARAJEVO, JUNE 11 /SRNA/ - Goran Bubić, the attorney for the President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik, told SRNA that, after presenting its appeal tomorrow before the Appeals Chamber, the defense will request that the first-instance verdict be annulled and either reversed into an acquittal or followed by a retrial.

Bubić said that the defense will attend tomorrow's session of the Appeals Chamber and will present the appeal orally, after the extra-constitutional Prosecutor's Office of BiH does so first. He stated that after the session, the panel, consisting of three judges, will deliberate and make a decision, which will be disclosed once the parties to the proceedings receive a copy of the decision. The session of the Appeals Chamber in the case against the President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, is scheduled for 13:00. Alongside Dodik, the acting director of the Official Gazette of Republika Srpska Miloš Lukić was also tried for failing to comply with the decisions of Christian Schmidt, but was acquitted in the first-instance verdict. Dodik was sentenced in a non-final verdict to one year in prison and a six-year ban on political activity.