1. April 2024.
Vojin Pavlovic, head of the Eastern Alternative organisation, went on trial for inciting ethnic, racial and religious hatred – the first person to be tried in the country for glorifying Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic.
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27. March 2024.
During a match last weekend, fans of a football club from Bijeljina displayed a banner of a notorious Russian military unit fighting in Ukraine. The Russian military unit, whose members look up to Arkan’s Tigers, thanked the fans on social media for their support. The fans in Bijeljina also called for the secession of Texas from the United States.
14. March 2024.
Six former members of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Zvornik Brigade denied capturing and forcibly detaining more than 800 Bosniak men and boys during the 1995 Srebrenica genocide.
11. March 2024.
Appeal judges at the Bosnian state court upheld the verdict convicting five former policemen of torturing Bosniak civilian detainees in the north-eastern town of Janja from 1992 to 1994.
7. March 2024.
We can reveal how a former chief of the Slovak counterintelligence service has found refuge in Bosnia and Herzegovina after serving two-thirds of his prison term. He is the third Slovak security official to have found our country a safe haven from the judicial authorities in their own EU state.
6. March 2024.
Bosnian Serb Army ex-soldier Milenko Macanovic was sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison for war crimes for killing a Bosniak civilian prisoner who was detained at a school in Kljuc in 1992 and injuring another.
29. February 2024.
Former Bosnian Serb Territorial Defence fighter Rade Grujic was convicted of committing a crime against humanity for raping a Bosniak woman who was being held captive in a house in the village of Liplje, near Zvornik, in 1992.
27. February 2024.
Samir Nukic was charged with inciting ethnic, racial and religious hatred for writing posts on Facebook insulting Croat children who were killed in an artillery attack in the town of Vitez during wartime in 1993.
16. February 2024.
Posts about the war in Gaza and images of killed civilians are being censored by platforms like Facebook and Instagram, causing journalists and human rights organisations to accuse the social media companies of suppressing news about the violence in the Middle East.
17. January 2024.
Just before the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a Detektor crew visited Kyiv, where the fight against Russian media disinformation is considered part of the war. Experts in the fight against disinformation warn that the intensification of Russian disinformation activity can be a precursor to more aggressive action by Russia, a fact which warrants caution in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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