31. May 2023.
Thirty-one years after a wartime campaign of persecution against non-Serbs began in Bosnia’s Prijedor area, survivors and their families commemorated the victims and urged the authorities to finally allow a memorial to be built.
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29. May 2023.
Borislav Gligorevic, a former Territorial Defence fighter and Bosnian Serb Army soldier who is suspected of raping two Bosniak women prisoners in Liplje in 1992, was arrested at a border crossing with Serbia.
16. May 2023.
The UN court in The Hague will hand down its verdict in the war crimes retrial of Serbian State Security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic after they appealed against their initial conviction.
11. May 2023.
The Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina approved negotiations to build two new gas pipeline links with Serbia and Croatia, but a decision on fuel import controls that is being sought by Russia was removed from their agenda.
11. May 2023.
Senaid Memic, the former mayor of Ilidza municipality and Bosnia and Herzegovina’s current ambassador to Malaysia, was arrested on charges related to building permits for a hotel funded by a Saudi company.
8. May 2023.
Representatives of a Russian organisation founded by Vladimir Putin and under EU sanctions for financing the war against Ukraine attended a ceremony in Visegrad to honour Russian fighters killed in the Bosnian war.
4. May 2023.
The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Judicial and Prosecutorial Training Center of Bosnia’s Federation entity signed a Memorandum of Cooperation on developing an educational programme on genocide denial and hate narratives.
26. April 2023.
In recent days, several news sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina come under attack from unknown hackers, making it difficult or impossible to access their pages and causing a fall in readership.
26. April 2023.
Balkan Investigative Reporting Network of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BIRN BiH, has donated the content of its database of judicially established facts about the Bosnian war to Sarajevo Canton’s Memorial Fund, as per a previously signed partnership memorandum, for educational and scientific-investigative purposes, as well as for the establishment of a museum of suffering.
19. April 2023.
Tributes have been paid to the victims of an artillery strike on the Bosnian town of Zenica in April 1993 that left 15 people dead, including a child – an attack that no one has been convicted of ordering.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.