7. December 2020.
Former Bosnian Serb soldier Sretko Pavic, who was convicted of killing of five members of a Bosniak family in a village near Prijedor in 1992, failed to appear to start serving his sentence.
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4. December 2020.
Bosnia’s State Prosecution has filed an indictment against the Federation entity, Prime Minister, Fadil Novalic, and several others in a corruption case concerning overpriced ventilators.
3. December 2020.
Semir Mujkic, managing editor of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network in Bosnia and Herzegovina, BIRN BiH, has won the first prize for the EU investigative journalism award for a series of research articles on Russian influence and extremist groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
2. December 2020.
OSA Director Osman Mehmedagic and Cyber-Security Department chief Muhamed Pekic have pleaded not guilty to charges of abuse of office – done allegedly to obtain information about an anonymous whistleblower who had filed a report alleging corruption.
26. November 2020.
The legal team of Milivoj Petkovic – a former leader of the self-proclaimed statelet of Herzeg-Bosnia in Bosnia, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison – has requested his early release, saying the conditions will be met next year.
26. November 2020.
An expert commission formed by a court in Serbia is to determine the exact starting date for the exhumation of a suspected mass grave in southern Serbia – which is likely to begin work shortly.
20. November 2020.
The Specialist Prosecutor’s Office in The Hague claims that Kosovo’s ex-president Hashim Thaci and his fellow war crimes indictees have been involved in interfering with potential prosecution witnesses before their trial.
20. November 2020.
Azra Husaric, a journalist with the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Bosnia and Herzegovina, BIRN BiH, has received UNICEF’s award for contribution to the promotion and protection of children’s rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the “Internet Work” category for her story on the challenges facing children with developmental difficulties and their parents in online classes during the current pandemic.
19. November 2020.
The state prosecution requested an extended custody remand for Jahja Vukovic,who is suspected of organising a terrorist group and going to fight in Syria,arguing that he was living in Germany, not at his address in Bosnia and Herzegovina, when he travelled to the Middle East.
18. November 2020.
Novak Djukic, who has already been convicted in Bosnia of the 1995 Tuzla massacre, needs further psychiatric treatment and is not well enough to participate in his trial in Serbia until September next year, medical experts said.
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