14. May 2021.
Former Bosnian Serb Radovan Karadzic’s objections to serving his sentence in a Britain prison, where he claims he could be attacked by Muslim extremists, have been rejected by the Hague war crimes court, his lawyer said.
Emina Dizdarević Tahmiščija
7. May 2021.
The case against Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, former heads of Serbia's State Security Service who are charged with, among other things, the murders of six Srebrenica residents in Trnovo in July 1995, is the latest in which judges from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia to determine the responsibility of the neighboring state for war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.
30. March 2021.
Bosnia’s Constitutional Court rejected an appeal from former policeman Darko Mrdja, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his involvement in murders and other crimes against Bosniaks in the Prijedor area in 1992.
29. March 2021.
Bosnia’s Constitutional Court rejected former Bosnian Serb Army military policeman Dragan Marjanovic’s appeal against the verdict convicting him of participating in the murders of 28 Bosniaks on Mount Borje near Teslic in 1992.
10. March 2021.
Mustafa Djelilovic, who was being retried for crimes against Serb and Croat civilian prisoners who were illegally held in detention camps in the Hadzici area of Bosnia during wartime, has died.
5. March 2021.
The coronavirus pandemic had a severe impact on the media sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with journalists losing their jobs and media houses suffering the cancellation of advertising contracts. But despite the virus and its consequences, some media outlets managed to publish stories that exposed serious malpractices this year, some of which resulted in indictments. Meanwhile the government offered financial support to selected media outlets, which experts claimed could compromise their journalistic standards.
9. February 2021.
Radoslav Brdjanin, wartime leader of the self-proclaimed, Serb-run Autonomous Region of Krajina in Bosnia and Herzegovina, has again asked for early release after his previous request was rejected because of the seriousness of his crimes.
20. January 2021.
The state court refused to confirm an indictment charging former brigade commander Radomir Nedic and former battalion commander Ratko Djurkovic with crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Ugljevik municipality in 1992.
14. January 2021.
The Constitutional Court rejected an appeal from former Bosnian Army soldier Tarik Sisic, who was convicted of involvement in the killings of 21 Serbs in the village of Kukavice in 1992.
8. January 2021.
A ceremony will be held in the village of Buhine Kuce, near Vitez in Bosnia and Herzegovina, to commemorate 26 people, including eight children, who were murdered in 1994 but whose killers have never faced trial.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.