5. June 2020.
Trials with large numbers of defendants cannot resume because of the problem of safe social distancing at the Bosnian state court, which will further slow the process of dealing with the country’s huge backlog of war crimes cases.
Emina Dizdarević Tahmiščija
4. May 2020.
The UN court in The Hague has rescheduled appeals against the verdict convicting Ratko Mladic of genocide and other wartime crimes for June 16-17, after they were postponed for the former Bosnian Serb military chief to undergo surgery.
14. April 2020.
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Constitutional Court is to rule on whether banning minors and people over 65 from leaving their homes because of the coronavirus pandemic breaches their civic rights.
8. April 2020.
The UN court in The Hague has rejected requests for early release from three war crimes convicts because they have not shown signs that they have been rehabilitated – a move applauded by Bosnian war victims’ organisation. Bosnian war victims’ representatives have welcomed decisions by Carmel Agius, president of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals […]
27. March 2020.
An association of lawyers working at international courts urged the UN tribunal in The Hague to grant early or provisional release to elderly war crime convicts to protect them from the coronavirus. The Association of Defence Counsel Practising Before the International Courts and Tribunals urged the UN’s Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague […]
10. March 2020.
Former Bosnian Serb fighter Milan Trisic, who was deported from the US for lying about his role in the war, will go on trial this month for committing crimes against humanity in the Bratunac area in 1992. Former Territorial Defence fighter Milan Trisic will go on trial on March 23 for crimes including murders, expulsions, […]
10. March 2020.
The trial of Milomir Savcic, former commander of the 65th Motorized Protective Regiment of the Main Headquarters with the Bosnian Serb Army, VRS, who has been accused of Srebrenica genocide, is due to begin on March 23, as agreed at a status conference. In its written motion the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina indicated it planned to […]
6. March 2020.
Ahead of Ratko Mladic’s appeal against his conviction for genocide and other wartime crimes, Srebrenica victims’ relatives are becoming anxious about the outcome after judges were replaced for alleged bias against the Bosnian Serb commander.
6. March 2020.
Ahead of Ratko Mladic’s appeal against his conviction for genocide and other wartime crimes, Srebrenica victims’ relatives are becoming anxious about the outcome after judges were replaced for alleged bias against the Bosnian Serb commander. Mirsada Malagic is one of the key witnesses of the Srebrenica genocide in July 1995. Six members of her family […]
3. March 2020.
Former Bosnian Serb fighter Dusan Spasojevic, who is on trial for raping a Bosniak woman during the war in May 1992, did not turn up for a court hearing and told his relatives that he has absconded. A hearing in the case against wartime Territorial Defence fighter Dusan Spasojevic at the Bosnian state court in […]
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