A banner condemning Ratko Mladic as a war criminal was torn down from a building in the Serbian city of Novi Sad, as a dispute continued to simmer over murals glorifying the Bosnian Serb military chief as a hero.
A multimedia exhibition created by Paul Lowe uses photography, 3-D models and witness testimonies to explore stories from Sarajevo’s ‘Sniper Alley’ during the 1992-95 siege of the Bosnian capital.
Police said the arrested 19-year-old Kosovar woman was passionately committed to becoming an Islamist 'martyr' – and was actively involved in recruiting others to the cause.
The treatment of Vietnamese workers brought to Serbia to build a factory for a Chinese company is shameful, and has all the elements of exploitation and people trafficking, an expert says.
Photographer Paul Lowe is presenting a BIRN-backed multimedia exhibition entitled ‘Watch Out, Sniper’, documenting the experiences of people who endured the dangers of Sarajevo’s Sniper Alley during the 1992-95 siege.
Serbian NGOs claim they have been denied access to workers from Vietnam who were brought to the country to build a factory for a Chinese company and are allegedly labouring and living in grim conditions.
Montenegro’s Ministry of Capital Investments published two international feasibility studies that said the $944 million borrowed by the previous government to construct the Bar-Boljare highway was more than the project should have cost.
Kosovo’s Court of Appeals upheld the verdict sentencing ex-fighter Zoran Djokic to 12 years in prison for his involvement in Serbian forces’ attacks on ethnic Albanian civilians in the town of Peja/Pec in 1999.
A memorial was unveiled to the mostly Serb victims who were killed in 1992 and 1993 at the Kazani Pit in the hills above Sarajevo on the orders of a Bosniak commander of a Bosnian Army brigade.
A debate about online freedom of expression entitled ‘New Trends or a Method of Suppressing Independent Journalism?’ was held in Sarajevo on November 12 by the Center for Investigative Journalism and BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina.