A Bosnian Serb party said the new chief of the country’s Communications Regulatory Agency should be a Serb, but the minister responsible insisted that ethnicity should not be an issue.

The Bosnian State Investigation and Protection Agency arrested Gligor Begovic on suspicion of the torture, sexual abuse and beating of Bosniak civilians at the wartime Batkovic jail camp.

A former detainee said he was repeatedly beaten in captivity by Nedzad Hodzic, one of two Bosniak ex-servicemen accused of wartime crimes on Mount Igman.