16. February 2021.
A BIRN investigation reveals serious holes in content policing by Facebook and Twitter in the Balkans.
Milica Stojanović
8. February 2021.
Belgrade Higher Court agreed that a Bosnian Serb ex-policeman accused of involvement in killing 1,313 Bosniaks from Srebrenica in 1995 can no longer stand trial alongside his seven co-defendants because of his mental health problems.
5. February 2021.
The former chief of the general staff of the Yugoslav Army, Momcilo Perisic, was convicted of espionage for handing military document to a US diplomat in 2002 and sentenced to three years in prison.
4. February 2021.
Husein Mujanovic, who was sentenced to ten years in jail for beating Serb prisoners at a Bosnian Army-run military prison in Hrasnica near Sarajevo during wartime, appealed for an acquittal or a retrial.
2. February 2021.
A Belgrade court sentenced former Bosnian Serb reservist policeman Milorad Jovanovic to nine years in prison for torturing civilian detainees at a museum in the Sanski Most area of Bosnia during the war in 1992.
2. February 2021.
In the last two years, 30 per cent of court hearings in war crimes trials in Serbia have been postponed, raising concerns about the country’s commitment to the rule of law - a key issue in its EU membership negotiations.
29. January 2021.
Laws and counter-terrorism strategies in the Balkans demonstrate a failure on the part of governments to take seriously the threat from far-right extremism, according to a BIRN analysis.
18. January 2021.
Sasa Ilic, whose recent award-winning novel addressed the enduring traumas caused by the Yugoslav conflicts, offers an alternative perspective to the nationalist narratives that still dominate Serbian society.
15. January 2021.
The Serbian authorities banned a Belgrade-based online shop from selling shirts with a slogan that celebrates the mass killings of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in 1995.
9. December 2020.
A court in Belgrade convicted former Yugoslav People’s Army military policeman Bosko Soldatovic of killing nine Albanian civilians during the war in Croatia in 1991.
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