Semir Mujkić, Author at Detektor

The UN court in The Hague will not reconsider its decision to reject former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic’s plea for judges he claims are biased against him to be disqualified from ruling on his attempts to appeal against his sentence.

Former Bosnian Army military policeman Adem Kostjerevac, who is accused of raping a pregnant Serb woman in Zvornik in 1992, was extradited from the US to Bosnia and Herzegovina to stand trial. The US Federal Court in Missouri on Monday approved an extradition request from Bosnia and Herzegovina for Adem Kostjerevac, who is wanted for trial in Sarajevo on war crimes charges.

Because the coronavirus pandemic caused delays to appeal hearings, the final verdict in former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic’s trial for genocide and other wartime crimes will not be delivered until next year.

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Gavrilo Stevic, the first person charged in Bosnia and Herzegovina with fighting in Ukraine, told BIRN after his acquittal why he went to the country’s war-ravaged east and how a Chetnik ‘duke’ tried to convince him to take up arms.

The UN court in The Hague postponed appeal hearings in the trial of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic, who is challenging his conviction for genocide and other crimes, because he needs to undergo surgery. The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague said on Wednesday that it has postponed appeal hearings that […]

In the first case of its kind in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the state court acquitted Gavrilo Stevic of going to join a pro-Russian separatist unit in the conflict in eastern Ukraine. The state court in Sarajevo on Tuesday found Gavrilo Stevic not guilty of going to fight abroad, in the first case in Bosnia and […]

The state court will hand down its first judgment on March 10 in the case of a Bosnian citizen accused of going to fight in Ukraine with a Russian-backed separatist unit.

The UN court in The Hague refused to grant early release to Radoslav Brdjanin, wartime leader of the self-proclaimed, Serb-run Autonomous Region of Krajina because of the seriousness of his crimes and lack of rehabilitation. The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague said on Monday that it has decided not to grant early […]

The prosecution told the trial of Gavrilo Stevic, who is accused of going to Ukraine to join a separatist combat unit, that photographs published in newspaper articles showed the defendant holding a gun in the Donbas conflict zone.

A defence witness at the trial of Gavrilo Stevic, who is accused of going to fight in Ukraine, said his first impression was that the defendant was deeply religious because he spoke about faith all the time.

Semir Mujkić

Hague Court Refuses to Reconsider Karadzic’s Judicial Bias Claim

Bosnian War Rape Suspect Extradited from United States

Ratko Mladic’s Final Verdict Postponed to 2021

Gavrilo Stevic: ‘They Tried to Recruit Me into Fighting in Ukraine’

Hague Court Postpones Ailing Ratko Mladic’s Genocide Appeal

Bosnian Acquitted of Going to Fight in Ukrainian Conflict

Bosnia to Deliver First Verdict for Fighting in Ukraine

Bosnian Serb War Criminal Denied Early Release from Jail

Photos Show Bosnian ‘Holding Gun in Ukraine Conflict Zone’

Trial Witness ‘Thought Bosnian Ukraine Fighter was Monk’

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