The appeals chamber of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday confirmed the 22-year sentence for both Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin, two former highly-ranked Bosnian Serb officials.

Stanisic, 62, former minister of the interior of Republika Srpska, and Zupljanin, 64, former security chief of the entity's main city Banja Luka, were both convicted for alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes committed between April and December 1992 in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Both men were found guilty of persecution, murder and torture of Bosniaks and Croats. In addition, Zupljanin was also convicted for extermination. The appeals chamber dismissed all of Stanisic's and Zupljanin's grounds of appeal.

The two were initially indicted by the Tribunal in 2005 and 1999 respectively. Stanisic surrendered and was transferred into the Tribunal's custody in March 2005. Zupljanin was arrested by Serbian authorities and brought to the ICTY detention unit in June 2008.

Three months later the cases were combined. The trial started in September 2009, ended in June 2012 and the judgment was rendered in March 2013. Endit

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