13. May 2021.
The former Bosnian Serb political leader’s lawyers objected to the UN court’s decision to send him to Britain to serve his life sentence, claiming that he could be killed by Muslim extremists seeking revenge for his wartime crimes.
Lamija Grebo
10. May 2021.
Peace activists from the Centre for Nonviolent Action put up temporary signs at eight unmarked locations in Bosnia and Herzegovina where people were detained, abused and killed during the 1992-95 war.
4. May 2021.
The Constitutional Court rejected an appeal from former Bosnian Army soldier Muhamed Sisic, who was convicted of involvement in the killings of 21 Serbs in an attack on the village of Kukavice in 1992.
4. May 2021.
The Constitutional Court rejected an appeal from former Bosnian Army soldier Mirsad Menzilovic, who was sentenced to six years in prison for raping a minor in Sarajevo in 1993.
16. April 2021.
A judge at the UN tribunal said Serbia should be reported to the Security Council for failing to comply with requests to arrest two Serbian Radical Party politicians and send them to The Hague to stand trial for contempt of court.
25. March 2021.
Prosecution witnesses’ statements read out at the trial of alleged fighter Milarem Berbic claimed they saw him armed and wearing a uniform while he was in Syria, but that they thought he was not militarily active.
24. March 2021.
The UN court in The Hague rejected a request for release on probation from Stanislav Galic, ex-commander of the Bosnian Serb Army’s Sarajevo-Romanija Corps, who was convicted of terrorising the people of Sarajevo during the wartime siege.
24. March 2021.
The UN court in The Hague rejected a request for early release from former Bosnian Croat political leader Jadranko Prlic because he has not yet served two-thirds of his 25-year war crimes sentence.
16. March 2021.
A group of activists put up temporary memorial signs to mark former detention centres at schools, industrial buildings and a nightclub where prisoners were held during the Bosnian war in the 1990s.
22. February 2021.
Since the fall of the Islamic State ‘caliphate’, piecemeal efforts by Balkan states to repatriate their nationals from refugee camps in Syria means more than 100 children are still living in squalid, unsafe conditions.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.