U.S. Court Approves Extradition to Bosnia and Herzegovina for Rape Charges During War

On March 23, 2020, U.S. Magistrate Judge Patricia Cohen in the U.S. District Court in St. Louis approved a request to extradite a man to Bosnia to face a war crime charge.[1] According to the extradition request, Adem Kostjerevac, the relator, was a military police officer with the 1^st Muslim Brigade of the army of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the time.  On September 17, 1992, the victim, a pregnant Serbian, was arrested after Muslim forces surrounded her village.  She was held for two weeks in the basement of a mill in another small village.[2]