11. May 2017.
A year and a half after the adoption of the Justice Sector Reform Strategy, state institutions are just beginning to implement some of the steps, and international monitors doubt that the justice ministry can meet its deadlines.
Denis Džidić
9. May 2017.
A Serbian court confirmed charges against five Bosnian Serb ex-fighters accused of killing 20 passengers they abducted from a train in Strpci, Bosnia in 1993 - over two years after they were indicted.
8. May 2017.
A former soldier with international peacekeeping forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina has written to the Croatian authorities, appealing to them to extradite Bosnian Croat war crimes suspects to stand trial.
5. May 2017.
The Bosnian authorities need to explain what they want from their partnership with NATO, particularly on security issues and fighting violent extremism, the political adviser at the US Mission to NATO told BIRN.
28. March 2017.
Prosecutors asked the Hague Tribunal to increase the jail sentences of six Bosnian Croat leaders accused of wartime crimes in the unrecognised statelet of Herzeg-Bosna to a total of 220 years.
28. March 2017.
Because of a lack of resources, Bosnians convicted of fighting for radical Islamist groups abroad are not helped to ‘deradicalise’ in jail or to reintegrate into society after their release.
15. March 2017.
In her closing statement, the defence lawyer for former Bosnian Serb soldier Sasa Curguz said he was not guilty of murders and torture in the Bihac area in 1992.
Presenting her closing statement at the state court in Sarajevo on Wednesday, Sasa Curguz’s defence lawyer Anja Loga said that the prosecution had neither proved that a widespread and systematic attack against civilians was conducted in the Bihac area in 1992 nor that the defendant’s actions were part of it.
1. February 2017.
A medical report rejected former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic’s claims that there were abnormally high levels of cancer among war crimes defendants held at the UN court’s detention centre.
18. January 2017.
In its 11th year, the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIRN BiH) began reporting on corruption, organised crime and terrorism, while maintaining a leading role in monitoring war crimes and the judiciary.
16. January 2017.
The former director of the Health Insurance Institute of Sarajevo Canton faces a lawsuit after spending more than 20,000 euros on a conference in the US that never took place.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.