Episode 156: Four stories of police brutality
We’ve been investigating how violence and inappropriate conduct by police officers are punished in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

We’ve been investigating how violence and inappropriate conduct by police officers are punished in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
BIRN BiH Journalist Lamija Grebo and Dzana Brkanic, BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina deputy editor, have won second prize of the European Union Investigative Journalism Awards for an investigation based on court verdicts over the past ten years for hate crimes.
Although the number of cyberattacks is increasing daily, almost no information about these attacks is to be found online, according to observations made during a panel discussion on the current state of cyber security in BiH at the Internet Governance Forum held in Sarajevo.
Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) remains one of the least equipped countries in the Western Balkans to fight cyberattacks. This was just one of the findings to emerge from the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), which was held in Sarajevo recently after a five-year hiatus. During the event, numerous conclusions were reached regarding internet management and human rights, cyber security, and ways to combat genocide denial, the glorification of war crimes, and hatred on the internet. These conclusions will be presented at a global forum in Japan.
The MC Serbs motorcycle club from Serbia, whose members wear Nazi-style death’s head insignias and some have tattoos of a stylised swastika, has officially registered an association to operate in the city of Doboj in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Detektor has learned.
Russian diplomats who were ousted by other European countries after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine have since been accredited as part of the Russian mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Detektor has learned.
Under the guise of patriotism, at least 19 shops and online stores in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina are selling clothes glorifying war criminals like Ratko Mladic and promoting far-right ideas, a BIRN investigation reveals.
A group of Bosnian Serb football fans has taken to displaying symbols associated with neo-Nazism, with apparently little fear of punishment.
Chinese and Turkish companies have had almost no competition from foreign companies in winning lucrative construction contracts worth over three billion euros in Bosnia and Herzegovina, research by Detektor reveals.
One December Sunday, dozens of darkly dressed Serbian far-rightists answered a rallying call to head to Kosovo and show support for Serbs there, who had barricaded roads in the latest protest against the authorities in Pristina.