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The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network of Bosnia and Herzegovina presented a multimedia research into Serbia’s role in the Bosnian war through international tribunal verdicts – with reference to the verdict against former Serbia State Security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic.

Out of 39 media outlets covered by the Media Ownership Monitor Database, nearly 40 per cent of the most prominent media outlets in Bosnia and Herzegovina do not offer full transparency, a conference to present the Database organised by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BIRN BiH, heard.

Haris Rovcanin won this year’s regional award in the ‘Contribution to the Community’ category for his work on the Database of Judicially Established Facts about the War in Bosnia.

Bosnia’s state court upheld a verdict acquitting the wartime commander of the Bosnian Army’s Fourth Corps, Ramiz Drekovic, of ordering artillery attacks on civilian targets in the town of Kalinovik in 1995.

Flowers were laid by family members and city officials to commemorate the deaths of nine people, including five children, in an artillery attack on the Otoka neighbourhood of Sarajevo in November 1993.

The remains of at least five people who disappeared during the 1990s war have been found at a grave site in Okolista in the Visegrad municipality of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Six members of Bosniak-led military and police forces are accused of systematically abusing and torturing Serb prisoners at a detention facility in the Bosnian town of Visoko in 1992.

Dragan Babic and Milivoje Maletic, who worked at a detention facility in the village of Pribinic in Serb-dominated Republika Srpska, were charged with involvement in killing six prisoners and abusing of dozens of others in 1992.

Bosnian Serb Army company commander Boban Indjic’s 15-year-sentence for his involvement in abducting 20 civilians from a train at Strpci station in 1993 and then killing them was upheld on appeal.

BIRN BiH Journalist Lamija Grebo and Dzana Brkanic, BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina deputy editor, have won second prize of the European Union Investigative Journalism Awards for an investigation based on court verdicts over the past ten years for hate crimes.

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BIRN BiH Presents ‘Verdict against Stanisic and Simatovic’ Digital Narrative

BIRN BiH Presents Media Ownership Monitor Database

BIRN BiH Assistant Editor Wins Srdjan Aleksic Award

Wartime Bosnian Army Officer Acquitted of Shelling Serb Civilians

30th Anniversary of Children’s Deaths in Sarajevo Shelling Mourned

Bosnia Exhumes Five War Victims’ Remains Near Visegrad

Six Bosnians Face Trial for Abuse and Torture of Serb Prisoners

Bosnia Charges Wartime Prison Guards with Killing Inmates

Bosnia Upholds Serb Ex-Officer’s Conviction for Train Massacre

BIRN BiH Journalist and Editor Win EU Investigative Journalism Award

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