Azra Husarić Omerović, Author at Detektor

Emina Dizdarevic, a journalist with the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Bosnia and Herzegovina, BIRN BiH, has won the Srdjan Aleksic Journalist Award in the category of nominations by journalists, for her three articles on the challenges facing marginalized groups in Bosnian society.

OSA Director Osman Mehmedagic and Cyber-Security Department chief Muhamed Pekic have pleaded not guilty to charges of abuse of office – done allegedly to obtain information about an anonymous whistleblower who had filed a report alleging corruption.

Former Bosnian Serb reservist policeman Dusan Culibrk is accused of involvement in the murders of 44 prisoners who were taken from the Omarska detention camp and killed in the Bosanska Krupa area in July 1992.

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Sixteen Bosniak men and one woman were seized by paramilitaries from the Bosnian Serb ‘Avengers’ unit and then abused and killed at a notorious hotel in Visegrad during the war in 1992.

Former Bosnian Serb reservist policeman Predrag Bastah, who is already serving a sentence for war crimes, pleaded not guilty to involvement in the killings of 37 Bosniak civilians near Vlasenica.

A new peace monument in Srebrenica has caused a row between local Serbs and Bosniaks, who are upset that it features no reference to the July 1995 genocide of thousands of men and boys from the town.

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Political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina surreptitiously swap seats on the committees that oversee polling stations, and although it’s not illegal, it allows them to influence the vote count on election day to their own advantage.

A film about a remarkable hospital that functioned underground during the war in Bosnia – directed by BIRN BiH’s deputy editor – has its first showing at this year’s online Sarajevo Film Festival.

Denis Dzidic, director of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Bosnia and Herzegovina, was given a Nino Catic Journalism Award on Friday for long-term reporting about the Srebrenica genocide and for contributing to preserving the truth about the July 1995 mass killings.

A court in Orasje in Bosnia says people convicted by the town’s court martial during the 1990s war will soon be asked to start serving their sentences - but some insist that they didn’t even know they were being tried.

Azra Husarić Omerović

BIRN BiH Journalist Wins Srdjan Aleksic Award

Bosnia Intelligence Agency Director Denies Abuse of Office

Bosnia Arrests Ex-Policeman over Killings of 44 Wartime Prisoners

Bosnian Bus Kidnapping Anniversary Commemorated by Victims’ Families

Bosnian Serb Ex-Policeman Pleads Not Guilty to Bosniaks’ Murders

New Srebrenica Peace Monument Sparks Dispute in Bosnia

Bosnian Polling Station Abuses are ‘Mechanism for Vote Theft’

BIRN Movie About Underground Hospital Premieres at Sarajevo Festival

BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina Director Given Srebrenica Reporting Award

‘Forgotten’ 1990s Bosnian Court Martial Sentences to be Enforced

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