BiH State Court Judge Dragica Miletic's monthly salary was reduced by 10 percent because she replaced the term "genocide" with the word "crime" in the minutes of a trial, Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) BiH reported Friday.

According to the final decision of the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council (HJPC) which appoints, dismisses and sanctions judges in the entire country, Judge Miletic was sentenced to a disciplinary measure of a 10 percent salary reduction for a period of one month, because she replaced the term “genocide” with the word “crime” in a trial minutes, thus committing the disciplinary offence of “behaviour in Court and outside the Court which harms the reputation of the judicial function”.

the charges against Miletic claim that, at a hearing held in the Administrative Department on March 3, 2020 – after prosecutor Mehdin Jakubovic, in the case in which she tried, stated for the record: “I survived the genocide” – she asked: “Shall we use the term genocide?”

The lawsuit also states that the Assistant State Attorney said that there are International Criminal Court verdicts that found genocide, and Judge Miletic said, among other things, that “as a judge, she is aware of all this, that she respects the victims and that she only asked if another term could be used”.

In February 2015, the HJPC suspended Judge Miletic after the Prosecution of BiH brought an indictment against her for abuse of office. A year later, in July 2016, her suspension was lifted and she was reinstated after being legally acquitted of abuse of office charges.

Miletic was acquitted of charges that she obtained a material benefit of around 1,700 Bosnian marks (some € 850) in 2009 as the Attorney General of Bosnia and Herzegovina.