Wednesday, 13 august 2025.
Questions Asked of Bosnia’s Failure to Investigate Lawmaker for War Crimes
It remains unclear why war crimes prosecutors in Bosnia have never investigated Bosnian Croat lawmaker Dragan Konta despite a 2017 court ruling identifying him as the military police commander at...
BIRN Bosnia Helps Mark 30th Anniversary of Srebrenica
Documentaries, a summer school and a memorial room are part of a collaboration between BIRN and the Srebrenica Memorial Center to mark the anniversary in 2025.
UN Court Again Refuses Bosnian Croat Wartime Leader Early Release
The UN war crimes court in The Hague has rejected a request for early release from former Bosnian Croat political chief Jadranko Prlic, citing his “heinous” crimes and “insufficient” rehabilitation.
Bosnia Indicts Five Serb Ex-Military Policemen for Genocide
Five former military policemen from the Bosnian Serb Army’s Zvornik and Bratunac Brigade were charged with genocide over the executions of hundreds of Bosniaks in Zvornik municipality in July 1995.
Detektor TV: In the newsroom on BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina’s 20th anniversary
In the first episode of Detektor TV, after we changed the name of our long-running show TV Justice, we bring a slightly different story - a story about us, the...
Jailed Bosnian Serb Wartime Minister Asks Hague Tribunal for Early Release
Former Bosnian Serb interior minister Mico Stanisic, sentenced to 22 years in prison by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, has submitted a request for early release from...
Batons and Blood: The Bosnian Music School That Became a Brutal Jail
Thirty years have passed since Bosnian Army troops detained and assaulted Croat and Serb prisoners in a music school basement in Zenica. In the Hague Tribunal archives, BIRN found names...
Justice Denied: How Warden of Infamous Bosnian Croat Camp Escaped Prosecution
Former inmates of the notorious Heliodrom camp still ask why warden Stanko Bozic – and others who allowed prisoners to be beaten and taken from the camp for forced labour...
Local Wartime Security Chief Acquitted of Rape Charges in Bosnia
Bosnia's state court ruled that Andrija Bjelosevic was not guilty of the multiple rape of a Bosniak woman in Derventa during the 1990s war, questioning the reliability of her testimony.