22. June 2020.
Vojislav Seselj – convicted in 2018 of inciting war crimes in the village of Hrtkovci in 1992 – will no longer have a seat in Serbia’s parliament, after his Serbian Radical Party failed to win enough votes in elections held on Sunday.
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19. June 2020.
Prosecutors at the UN court in The Hague asked for the appeal against the verdict convicting former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic to be rescheduled quickly after it was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.
18. June 2020.
Former Bosnian Army military policeman Adem Kostjerevac, who is accused of raping a pregnant Serb woman in Zvornik in 1992, was extradited from the US to Bosnia and Herzegovina to stand trial.
The US Federal Court in Missouri on Monday approved an extradition request from Bosnia and Herzegovina for Adem Kostjerevac, who is wanted for trial in Sarajevo on war crimes charges.
18. June 2020.
The defence team for Muharem Dunic, who has been accused of joining a terrorist organisation, has struck a plea bargain with the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina which involves him admitting guilt, Dunic’s defence lawyer Senad Dupovac confirmed to BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina.
18. June 2020.
The Bosnian state court agreed to transfer to Croatia the case against former Croatian Defence Council general Zlatan Mijo Jelic, who is accused of committing crimes against humanity against Bosniak civilians in Mostar in 1993-94.
15. June 2020.
The State Investigation and Protection Agency, SIPA arrested a man who allegedly expressed racist and anti-Semitic views and issued online threats to citizens of the United States on several occasions, SIPA told BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina.
12. June 2020.
The Bosnian Missing Persons Institute said that the incomplete remains of one Bosniak war victim have been exhumed in Pusmulici in the Srebrenica municipality.
11. June 2020.
The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Bosnia and Herzegovina has won the prestigious European Press Prize for its reporting on war crimes trials, transitional justice issues and the problems faced by victims of the 1990s conflict.
11. June 2020.
The state prosecution has filed an indictment charging Muharem Dunic with fighting in Syria and Iraq in 2014 as a member of paramilitary groups that operated as part of the so-called Islamic State.
10. June 2020.
The Bosnian Missing Persons Institute said that an exhumation near Bratunac has uncovered the partial remains of two people that it believes were killed during the Srebrenica genocide in 1995.
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