Nikola Jorgić (1946 – 8 June 2014) was a Bosnian Serb from the Doboj region who was a soldier of a paramilitary group located in his native area.
Jorgić was sentenced to four terms of life imprisonment for his involvement in the Bosnian genocide.
The Oberlandesgericht found that the paramilitary group had joined in the Bosnian Serb government's activities.
[2] The European Court of Human Rights heard Jorgić's appeal in 2007 on the grounds that they had no jurisdiction (meaning the German courts were neither "competent", contrary to Article 5, nor "established by law", contrary to Article 6); that their refusal to summon certain witnesses abroad rendered his trial unfair, contrary to Article 6; and that their interpretation of the crime of genocide was too broad and the proper interpretation did not extend to his actions, amounting to a violation of article 7.
They also ruled the Article 6 claim on the grounds of unexamined evidence to be "manifestly ill-founded" and therefore inadmissible.