7. October 2020.
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Constitutional Court rejected an appeal by Ivan Medic, who was sentenced to 12 years in prison for mistreating civilian prisoners at the Dretelj detention camp near Capljina.
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7. October 2020.
Police arrested Ivan Djuric, who is suspected of committing crimes against humanity including murder against Bosniak, Croat and ethnic Albanian prisoners who were illegally detained in the town of Brcko in 1992.
7. October 2020.
The Bosnian court asked the Serbian judiciary to enforce the 14-year prison sentence for crimes against humanity handed down to wartime Bosnian Serb Army military police commander Dragomir Kezunovic.
5. October 2020.
The Bosnian authorities are seeking the arrest of ex-policeman Mico Jurisic, who failed to appear to start serving his 11-year sentence for committing crimes against humanity in the Prijedor area during the war in 1992.
1. October 2020.
RSF Austria on Thursday awarded BIRN its prestigious Press Freedom Award – A Signal for Europe – which BIRN’s regional director, Marija Ristic, described as an honour and encouragement.
1. October 2020.
Wartime paramilitary leader Milan Lukic, who was sentenced to life in prison by the Hague Tribunal for committing crimes against humanity in Visegrad in Bosnia, asked the UN court to review his verdict.
29. September 2020.
Young Serbian artist Jelena Jacimovic’s images of victims and survivors of the 1995 genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica, inspired by their personal testimonies in war crimes archives, are going on display in Belgrade.
24. September 2020.
The families of Bosnian Islamic State supporters held in camps in Syria say, after meeting the Security Minister, that they hope a group of women and children may be coming home soon.
24. September 2020.
After a delay of two-and-a-half years, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Council of Ministers adopted a revised strategy for processing war crimes cases, intended to speed up work on clearing the country’s huge backlog.
23. September 2020.
Milivoj Petkovic, the former commander of the Croatian Defence Council, the Bosnian Croat wartime force, has been sent to Belgium to serve his sentence for crimes against humanity after being convicted by the UN court.
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