Belgrade Appeals Court quashed the verdict convicting Danko Vladicic of killing an elderly couple in the Bosnian town of Brod na Drini during the war in 1992 and sent the case for a retrial.
Despite a 2021 conviction for breaching his fiduciary duty, Marinko Brkic continued to represent clients after the Republika Srpska Bar Association missed the deadline to remove him from the registry of attorneys. This has left several war crimes trials in a state of uncertainty, Detektor reveals.
Wartime rape survivors from Bosnia and Herzegovina say they are ready to help victims of sexual violence in the conflict in Ukraine by sharing their experiences of issues like coping with trauma, undergoing treatment and seeking justice.
In recent days, several news sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina come under attack from unknown hackers, making it difficult or impossible to access their pages and causing a fall in readership.
Courts across the country have issued at least 172 warrants for the arrests of war crimes suspects, indictees and convicts who can’t be brought to justice because they are no longer in Bosnia and Herzegovina, BIRN has learned.
The Bosnian court upheld the five-month prison sentences handed down to three members of a Serb nationalist Chetnik organisation who were convicted of inciting hatred at a rally in the town of Visegrad in 2019.
State Investigation and Protection Agency officers arrested former Bosnian Army soldier Mustafa Gegaj for allegedly committing war crimes against Serb prisoners in Sarajevo in 1992.
Bosnian Serb Army ex-officer Veljko Papic appealed against his conviction for forcing civilians to do hard labour on the front lines in the Bosnian capital and making some of them remove the bodies of a young couple who were murdered.
The remains of 50 victims of the July 1995 massacres of Bosniaks by Bosnian Serb forces, including three minors, will be buried at next week’s 27th anniversary commemoration of the genocide.