2. September 2020.
Former Bosnian Serb Army battalion commander Srecko Acimovic asked the Bosnian court to acquit him of genocide, saying that he tried but failed to prevent a massacre of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995.
Albina Sorguč
14. August 2020.
The authorities in the Sarajevo Canton allocated around 1,370,000 euros from 2013 to 2020 to help defend mainly Bosniak ex-soldiers and police officers on trial for war crimes and to assist their families, BIRN has learned.
24. July 2020.
The Bosnian state court has decided to end the custody remand for Hamza La-bidi, who has been accused of joining foreign paramilitary groups in Syria, de-fence lawyer Bakir Hecimovic confirmed to BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina.
24. July 2020.
Testifying at the Bosnian state court at the trial of Hamza Labidi, who is accused of joining foreign paramilitary groups in Syria, a criminology expert said that the defendant’s identity was established by a fingerprint analysis at Sarajevo airport.
22. July 2020.
Radenko Marinovic, who was found not guilty of participating in the persecution of the Bosniak population in the Prijedor area in 1992, is suing the state for around 25,500 euros in compensation.
21. July 2020.
The suspected remains of a Bosniak war victim have been found close to the house of former Bosnian Serb paramilitary leader Milan Lukic, who is already serving a life sentence for war crimes.
17. July 2020.
Police in Banja Luka arrested former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Dusko Solesa, who is wanted to serve a six-year prison sentence for raping a teenage girl in the Bihac municipality during the war in 1992.
16. July 2020.
Former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Rade Vlasenko, who was acquitted of taking three civilians from a detention camp in 1992 and then killing one of them, is suing the state for 10,210 euros.
15. July 2020.
The trial of Hamza Labidi for joining foreign paramilitary groups in Syria began at the state court in Sarajevo with the reading of the indictment charging him with travelling to Syria with his family in June 2014 and joining units under the umbrella of Islamic State, which the UN has declared a terrorist organisation.
5. July 2020.
War crimes in the village of Zepa just after the Srebrenica massacres in July 1995 were initially tried as genocide, but the charge was eventually dropped, and 25 years on, most suspects have never even been indicted.
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