28. July 2022.
The Bosnian state court confirmed former Bosnian Army military policeman Adem Kostjerevac’s seven-year prison sentence for raping a pregnant woman in the Zvornik municipality during the war in 1992.
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28. July 2022.
Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that authorities froze the property of an unnamed Russian citizen and a Russian politician in line with European Union sanctions on Russia related to its war on Ukraine.
26. July 2022.
A Soviet-era plane that crashed in Greece, killing eight crew members, was carrying Serbian arms to Bangladesh in a deal brokered by a Bosnia-based company owned by a Polish weapons firm, BIRN has learned.
26. July 2022.
Marking its 25th anniversary, the Memorial Fund presented BIRN BiH with a certificate of appreciation for its contribution toward raising awareness about the importance of the culture of memory.
20. July 2022.
Croatian President Zoran Milanovic will award the honorary rank of brigadier-general to former Croatian Defence Council commander Djuro Matuzovic, who is currently being tried in Bosnia for war crimes.
19. July 2022.
Predrag Kujundzic, the wartime commander of the Predini Vukovi (Predo’s Wolves) unit, who was serving a 17-year sentence for the persecution, rape and unlawful detention of civilians, died in hospital in Doboj in Bosnia.
14. July 2022.
The acquittal of ex-fighters Edhem Godinjak, Medaris Saric and Mirko Bunoza, who were cleared of the wartime killings and inhumane treatment of imprisoned Bosnian Serb civilians and soldiers in Trnovo near Sarajevo, was upheld on appeal.
13. July 2022.
Women in Black’s office in Belgrade was vandalised with red paint the day after the Serbian peace group was involved in events to commemorate the anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide.
13. July 2022.
Ivica Husnik, a paramilitary convicted of participating in the killings of some 200 Croatian prisoners after the town of Vukovar fell in 1991, was extradited from Serbia to Croatia to serve a prison sentence for another crime.
12. July 2022.
With only eight hearings held since the beginning of 2020 – and none in 2022 – the trial of seven former Bosnian Serb special policeman accused of taking part in the executions of 1,300 Bosniaks has again been delayed.
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