12. March 2021.
The UN court has again rejected a plea for early release from prison for Goran Jelisic, a detention camp guard during the Bosnian war who once described himself as a ‘Serbian Adolf Hitler’.
Nermina Kuloglija-Zolj
10. March 2021.
Balkans states might be prepared on paper, but in practice they are struggling to confront the growing threat from cyber-attacks. Bosnia doesn’t have a state-level strategy.
8. March 2021.
The Security Ministry of Bosnia and Herzegovina has started collecting information for its final report on the implementation of the Action Plan for the Strategy for Preventing and Countering Terrorism, which expired late last year.
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.
22. January 2021.
Sakib Mahmuljin, former commander of the Third Corps of the Bosnian Army, was sentenced to ten years in prison for failing to stop Islamic volunteer fighters torturing and killing Serb prisoners.
20. January 2021.
Bosnia lags behind the rest of the Western Balkans in terms of its strategy on countering terrorism, particularly how to handle fighters returning from foreign wars.
13. January 2021.
In closing statements at the state court, the prosecution asked for Senad Kasupovic be found guilty of organising a terrorist group, while the defence called for an acquittal, claiming a lack of evidence.
5. January 2021.
After accepting a plea bargain, the Bosnian state court sentenced Emir Alisic to two-and-a-half years in prison for organising a terrorist group.
4. January 2021.
The UN court in The Hague rejected an appeal for early release from the wartime political leader of Bosnia’s Prijedor municipality, Milomir Stakic, who was convicted of the persecution and extermination of Bosniaks and Croats.
24. December 2020.
At the Bosnian state court’s trial of Jasmin Keserovic, who is charged with going to fight in the conflict in Syria, a prosecution expert witness said that four witnesses, all of whom were also in Syria, are not capable of testifying for medical reasons.
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