Wednesday, 2 april 2025.
Bosnia Charges Wartime Prison Guards with Killing Inmates
Dragan Babic and Milivoje Maletic, who worked at a detention facility in the village of Pribinic in Serb-dominated Republika Srpska, were charged with involvement in killing six prisoners and abusing...
Bosnia Upholds Serb Ex-Officer’s Conviction for Train Massacre
Bosnian Serb Army company commander Boban Indjic’s 15-year-sentence for his involvement in abducting 20 civilians from a train at Strpci station in 1993 and then killing them was upheld on...
Impunity for Genocide Denial Spurs Youth Pop Culture Trend Online
The absence of legal consequences, minimal accountability from social media platforms, and their reluctance to remove harmful content have made genocide denial and the glorification of war criminals a part...
Internet Governance Forum Identifies Alarming Trends and Offers Recommendations to Improve Cyber Space in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) remains one of the least equipped countries in the Western Balkans to fight cyberattacks. This was just one of the findings to emerge from the Internet...
Episode 153: BIRN BiH and Transaprency Index Shows Judiciary’s Key Problems with Tackling Corruption
In the September edition of TV Justice we’ll be talking about a unique two-year investigation into the prosecution of corruption in Bosnia and Herzegovina, disciplinary actions against judges and prosecutors,...
Episode 151: Srebrenica – Preserving Memories to Combat Genocide Denial
For a third year running, staff at the Srebrenica Memorial Centre have been filming stories about the lives of residents of Srebrenica before and during the war, as well as...
Serbian Wartime State Security Chiefs’ Appeal Verdict Due on May 31
The UN court in The Hague will hand down its verdict in the war crimes retrial of Serbian State Security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic after they appealed against...
Federation CEST and BIRN BiH Sign Memorandum to Boost Education on Genocide Denial
The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Judicial and Prosecutorial Training Center of Bosnia’s Federation entity signed a Memorandum of Cooperation on developing an educational programme...
From Court to Classroom: Bringing Wartime Facts to Bosnia’s Schools
In Bosnia and Herzegovina’s ethnically-divided schooling system, teaching about the 1990s conflict is often one-sided and excludes important war crimes verdicts – so BIRN has created a database of court-established...