Admir Muslimović, Author at Detektor

Former Croatian Defence Council battalion commander Mile Puljic was acquitted on appeal of committing crimes against humanity by allowing the abuse of prisoners in the Mostar area in 1993 and 1994. The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court on Thursday acquitted Mile Puljic, former commander of the Second Battalion of the Croatian Defence Council’s Second Brigade, of crimes against humanity.

Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik claims the final verdict in Radovan Karadzic’s trial will be unfair, while Bosniak war victims’ groups want a tougher sentence - suggesting that the ruling will only perpetuate ethnic divides in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Bosnia's state Investigation agency has accused nine people of committing election fraud in the general elections in October 2018 in the Brcko area, BIRN Bosnia can reveal.

The Sarajevo authorities have begun talks about checking the identities of captured Islamic State fighters, their wives and children before they can be sent back from Syria to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Relatives of the 68 people killed in February 1994 when Bosnian Serb forces shelled Sarajevo’s Markale marketplace commemorated their deaths in the Bosnian capital.

Former Bosnian Serb soldier Vuk Ratkovic’s conviction for the multiple rape of a woman in Visegrad during the war in 1992 and 1993 was upheld on appeal.

The watchdog organisation Transparency International's latest annual report on perceived corruption around the world has given the Balkan countries low scores.

War crimes prosecution, ethnic tensions, threats to journalists and minority and immigrants’ rights remain the key problems in the field of human rights in the Balkans, Human Rights Watch's World Report 2019 noted.

A former Bosnian Serb soldier was found guilty of crimes against humanity in a Bosniak area of eastern Bosnia in 1992 and 1993. Former Bosnian Serb fighter Zdravko Lubarda was sentenced to six years in prison on Monday for involvement in the persecution of Bosnian Muslim civilians in the Rogatica area of eastern Bosnia in 1992 and 1993 during the Bosnian war.

Dusan Spasojevic, a former member of a Serb-led Territorial Defence force, was charged with committing a war crime against a Bosniak in the Zvornik area in 1992. The Bosnian state prosecution on Thursday charged Dusan Spasojevic, in his capacity as a member of the Territorial Defence force of the so-called ‘Serbian municipality of Zvornik’, with committing a war crime against a Bosniak in the village of Jusici in May 1992.

Admir Muslimović

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Bosnia Charges Serb Ex-Fighter with Zvornik War Crime

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