24. February 2022.
Authorities are mulling Ukrainian 'Right Sector' member Rizvan Babayev's request for political asylum, after he was detained on a Russian-issued international arrest warrant.
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18. February 2022.
Former Bosnian Army unit commander Safet Isakovic was cleared of shooting dead a Serb prisoner of war in the Bosanska Krupa area in July 1995.
16. February 2022.
Parts of the skeletons of three people, believed to be Bosniak victims of the war who disappeared in 1993, have been exhumed from a burial site in the Mostar area.
10. February 2022.
Haris Rovcanin, a journalist with BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina, has been shortlisted for the Fetisov Journalism Awards in the ‘Outstanding Contribution to Peace’ category.
10. February 2022.
BIRN BiH’s Haris Rovcanin has won the Fetisov international award in the ‘Outstanding Contribution to Peace’ category for a series of four articles.
10. February 2022.
The mayor of the Montenegrin town of Pljevlja, Igor Golubovic, resigned amid a controversy over his alleged opposition to removing graffiti celebrating Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic in his hometown.
9. February 2022.
The Bosnian court confirmed an indictment charging nine former soldiers and policemen with committing a crime against humanity in the village of Zijemlje near Mostar, where around 100 Bosniaks, including children, were killed in 1992.
8. February 2022.
The state court confirmed an indictment charging former Bosnian Serb policemen Dane Bajic and Mijodrag Knezevic with involvement in illegal detentions, torture and murder in the Prijedor area in 1992.
4. February 2022.
Civil rights organisations welcomed Zagreb city council’s decision to add the Zec family, a Serb couple and their daughter killed by Croatian police during the war, to a register of names of people who should have streets named after them.
2. February 2022.
‘Day of Honour’, held in memory of Nazi garrison in besieged Budapest at end of World War II, is prohibited this year – with police citing extremism and fears for public order.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.