4. December 2020.
Bosnia’s State Prosecution has filed an indictment against the Federation entity, Prime Minister, Fadil Novalic, and several others in a corruption case concerning overpriced ventilators.
Albina Sorguč
4. December 2020.
The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network in Bosnia and Herzegovina concludes its ‘Forgotten Victims’ campaign with this month’s TV Justice programme, last instalment in a ten-month series highlighting the experiences of war victims and their families. The series intends to draw public and judicial attention to crimes that have not yet been prosecuted, with the aim of instigating investigations and charges against those responsible. The lack of co-operation between countries in the region is one of the obstacles to prosecuting these crimes.
3. December 2020.
Semir Mujkic, managing editor of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network in Bosnia and Herzegovina, BIRN BiH, has won the first prize for the EU investigative journalism award for a series of research articles on Russian influence and extremist groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
17. November 2020.
The Constitutional Court has rejected a compensation claim from Kemal Muric, who sought 60,000 Bosnian marks (over 30,000 euros) in damages after the state prosecution discontinued an investigation into him and several others for allegedly planning a terrorist attack on New Year’s Eve 2016.
13. November 2020.
Eight former Bosnian Serb Army servicemen were charged with crimes against humanity for killing at least 78 Bosniak civilians who were lined up and shot in a village in the Kljuc municipality in June 1992.
15. October 2020.
Bosnia and Herzegovina handed over the remains of four victims of the 1992-95 war for official identification and burial in Serbia, while the Serbian authorities handed over the remains of a Bosnian citizen.
13. October 2020.
The prosecution in Zagreb has agreed to take over Bosnia’s case against former Croatian Defence Council general Zlatan Mijo Jelic, who is accused of wartime crimes against Bosniak civilians in Mostar in 1993-94.
30. September 2020.
The Bosnian court sentenced Boris Bosnjak, Miodrag Grubacic and Ilija Djajic to a total of 21 years in prison for the inhumane treatment of Bosniak and Croat civilian detainees held at a military barracks in Bileca in 1992.
11. September 2020.
The families of two men who were killed while fleeing their homes during the Bosnian war in 1993 have appealed to prosecutors many times to find the killers - but as the years pass and witnesses become fewer, they are losing hope.
8. September 2020.
Ratko Djurkovic, former commander of the First Battalion of the Bosnian Serb Army’s First Majevica Brigade, is suspected of failing to prevent troops murdering Bosniak civilians and captives in the Ugljevik area in 1992.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.