Albina Sorguč, Author at Detektor

The defence team for Muharem Dunic, who has been accused of joining a terrorist organisation, has struck a plea bargain with the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina which involves him admitting guilt, Dunic’s defence lawyer Senad Dupovac confirmed to BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Bosnian state court agreed to transfer to Croatia the case against former Croatian Defence Council general Zlatan Mijo Jelic, who is accused of committing crimes against humanity against Bosniak civilians in Mostar in 1993-94.

Hamza Labidi, who has been accused of joining foreign paramilitary or parapolice formations in Syria, which operated as part of so-called Islamic State, pleaded not guilty before the Bosnian state court.

The State Investigation and Protection Agency, SIPA arrested a man who allegedly expressed racist and anti-Semitic views and issued online threats to citizens of the United States on several occasions, SIPA told BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Bosnian prosecution called for the conviction of wartime fighters Mile Pazin and Vide Kresic, who are accused of physically and mentally abusing civilian detainees in the Stolac area in 1993.

Eleven-year-old Marko Zizic was one of a dozen people killed when a football match in a parking lot was shelled in Sarajevo on June 1, 1993 - and none of the direct perpetrators has ever been prosecuted.

The trial of Senad Kasupovic, alias Muatesim, who has been charged with terrorism for his alleged involvement in fighting in Syria, is due to begin on May 20, the state court has confirmed.

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Sarajevo Canton bought 50,000 protective masks from a company owned by the son of a cantonal parliamentarian, raising questions of corruption and conflict of interests, BIRN BiH has learned.

The trials of Jasmin Keserovic and Armen Dzelko, both accused of terrorism for going to fight in Syria, will begin at the Bosnian state court on May 4, the court and defence lawyer Senad Dupovac told BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina.

<div class="btArticleExcerpt">When prosecutors started to investigate the killings of six people by rebel Bosniak militiamen in north-western Bosnia, relatives hoped that indictments would soon follow - but 15 years later, the probe is still ongoing.

Albina Sorguč

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