Friday, 6 february 2026.
Bosnian Detention Camp Guard’s Prisoner Abuse Conviction Upheld
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Constitutional Court rejected an appeal by Ivan Medic, who was sentenced to 12 years in prison for mistreating civilian prisoners at the Dretelj detention camp near Capljina.
Bosnia Arrests Ex-Policeman for Killing War Prisoners
Police arrested Ivan Djuric, who is suspected of committing crimes against humanity including murder against Bosniak, Croat and ethnic Albanian prisoners who were illegally detained in the town of Brcko...
Bosnian Serb War Criminal Asks for Review of Life Sentence
Wartime paramilitary leader Milan Lukic, who was sentenced to life in prison by the Hague Tribunal for committing crimes against humanity in Visegrad in Bosnia, asked the UN court to...
Access Denied: Most Balkan War Crimes Case Files Not Public
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo and Serbia, most of the case files and evidence from war crime trials are not immediately accessible to journalists, researchers and the general public,...
Hague Prosecutors Urge Second Genocide Conviction for Ratko Mladic
Prosecutors appealed to the UN court to convict former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic of committing genocide in five Bosnian municipalities in 1995 as well as the Srebrenica genocide...
Bosnia Acquits Wartime Police Chief of Illegally Detaining Serbs
Ibro Merkez, a wartime police chief in the Bosnian town of Gorazde, was found not guilty on appeal of the unlawful detention and inhumane treatment of Serb civilian prisoners in...
Bosnia Gets First Modern State Prison After Long Delays
Bosnia inaugurated its first state prison, which will accommodate war criminals and organised crime convicts, after more than a decade of delays in the construction of the 40-million-euro, European-standard penitentiary.
Freed War Criminal Zdravko Mucic Drowns in Bosnia
Released war criminal Zdravko Mucic, the commander of a prison camp who was jailed by the Hague Tribunal over the deaths, torture and inhumane treatment of Serb inmates, drowned after...
NEWS Burial Ceremony Held for Six War Victims from Bosnia’s Prijedor
Six people’s remains were buried at the annual ceremony for recently-exhumed war victims at the Kamicani Memorial Centre near Prijedor, but the event was scaled down because of the coronavirus...