23. January 2020.
The Bosnian state court has ordered a two-month custody extension for six men accused of going to fight in the conflict in Syria, BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina was told.
Albina Sorguč
23. January 2020.
Munib Ahmetspahic expressed regret for having joined the Islamic State in Syria. A Court declared him “deradicalised”, but experts say his case provides few real lessons for the fight against religious radicalism. Standing in a Bosnian courtroom in April last year, Munib Ahmetspahic repented. “How naïve we were,” he said. The war in Syria had […]
9. January 2020.
The shelling of a tram full of passengers in January 1996 was one of the last major attacks of the siege of Sarajevo, after the peace deal ending the Bosnian war was signed, but the perpetrators have never been caught.
7. January 2020.
Orthodox Christmas celebrations by Serbs driving through Srebrenica, Visegrad and Bratunac in convoys of cars blaring Serbian songs sparked calls for an official investigation into claims that they terrified Bosniaks.
30. December 2019.
Half as many people have been charged with war crimes by the Bosnian state prosecution this year compared to 2018, causing war victims’ groups to warn that some perpetrators may never face justice. During the course of 2019 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 27 state prosecutors dealing with war crimes filed 17 indictments by December 29, […]
26. December 2019.
Jasmin Keserovic, one of seven people suspected of fighting in Syria who were repatriated to Bosnia and Herzegovina in December, declined to answer prosecutors’ questions.
24. December 2019.
The Bosnian state court will hand down its verdict on December 27 in the trial of Ibro Cufurovic, who has admitted he was guilty of going to fight for ISIS in Syria.
18. December 2019.
International ‘red notices’ have been issued for the arrests of ex-fighters Darko Mrdja and Dragan Marjanovic, who have both fled Bosnia and Herzegovina after being convicted of wartime crimes. Bosnia and Herzegovina is seeking the arrests of Bosnian Serb ex-policeman Darko Mrdja and ex-military policeman Dragan Marjanovic, who both absconded after second-instance verdicts convicted them […]
10. December 2019.
A preoccupation with the security aspect of bringing back men, women and children from former Islamic State territory means Bosnia has neglected to fully involve social workers, teachers and health professionals in areas where returnees will be settled, according to an analysis by BIRN.
18. November 2019.
Five former Bosniak fighters went on trial for physically abusing captured Bosnian Serb Army soldiers in the Visegrad, Gorazde and Rogatica areas between 1992 and 1995.
The trial of former Bosniak fighters Mustafa Stovrag, Camil Ramic, Mehmedalija Topalovic, Himzo Selimovic and Ramiz Micivoda, who are all accused of prisoner abuse during wartime, opened at the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Monday.
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