The UN court in The Hague rejected a request for early release from former Bosnian Serb Army officer Vujadin Popovic, who is serving a life sentence for the genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in 1995.
Former Bosnian Serb reservist policemen Milorad Kotur and Dusan Culibrk were charged with involvement in the killings of more than 50 Bosniaks and Croats in the Bosanska Krupa area in 1992.
Bosnia and Herzegovina marked the 25th anniversary of the Dayton Peace Accords that ended the 1990s war - but amid the pandemic, the slow process of prosecuting the crimes committed during the conflict got even slower.
A witness said she moved from Bosnia and Herzegovina to Islamic State-controlled territory in Syria in 2013 to be able to practice her religion in the way she wanted.
The trial of Milarem Berbic, a Bosnian accused of going to fight in Syria, was postponed after the defendant went on hunger strike over alleged poor conditions in detention.
Hague Tribunal documents reveal the names of Croatian Defence Council brigade commanders and military policemen associated with the unlawful detention, abuse, rape and killing of prisoners in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Prozor-Rama area in 1992 and 1993.
A protected witness told the trial of Senad Kasupovic, who is accused of going to fight for Islamic State, that used to see the defendant in Syria, and that he had a female slave.
Hague Tribunal judgments and evidence files contain names of Bosnian Serb soldiers and policemen who have never been prosecuted for suspected involvement in killings, ethnic cleansing and detention camp abuses in Bosnia’s Prijedor area in 1992, a BIRN investigation has found.
Testifying at the trial of Milarem Berbic for going to fight in Syria, a prosecution witness said that there was a strong probability that the defendant appears in photographs presented to the court.
A Bosnian state prosecution expert told the trial of Senad Kasupovic, who is accused of joining paramilitary groups in Syria that he found it difficult to confirm whether the defendant is the person appearing in some of the videos introduced as evidence.