Representatives of a Russian organisation founded by Vladimir Putin and under EU sanctions for financing the war against Ukraine attended a ceremony in Visegrad to honour Russian fighters killed in the Bosnian war.
The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Judicial and Prosecutorial Training Center of Bosnia’s Federation entity signed a Memorandum of Cooperation on developing an educational programme on genocide denial and hate narratives.
In recent days, several news sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina come under attack from unknown hackers, making it difficult or impossible to access their pages and causing a fall in readership.
Balkan Investigative Reporting Network of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BIRN BiH, has donated the content of its database of judicially established facts about the Bosnian war to Sarajevo Canton’s Memorial Fund, as per a previously signed partnership memorandum, for educational and scientific-investigative purposes, as well as for the establishment of a museum of suffering.
Tributes have been paid to the victims of an artillery strike on the Bosnian town of Zenica in April 1993 that left 15 people dead, including a child – an attack that no one has been convicted of ordering.
Bosnia and Herzegovina recorded almost ten million cyber attacks in just one month, while it still lacks essential strategies, regulation and capabilities to protect citizens and businesses, parliamentarians heard during a presentation of the results of the first Report on cyber threats, attended by UK government Minister Baroness Neville-Rolfe and British Ambassador Julian Reilly.
A memorial ceremony was held to mark the 30th anniversary of an artillery attack from Bosnian Serb Army positions on a school playground in Srebrenica that killed 105 Bosniak civilians.
The Bosnian state court has asked Turkey for the extradition of Sakib Mahmuljin, wartime commander of the Bosnian Army’s Third Corps, after he failed to appear to serve his eight-year war crimes sentence.
The Municipal Court in Sarajevo confirmed an indictment filed by the Cantonal Prosecution, charging Nefail Cehic with the crime of “jeopardizing security” by sending serious threats to the life of staff members of Detektor newsroom of Balkan Investigative Reporting Network of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BIRN BiH, from his Facebook profile. The threats were sent to Detektor’s Facebook page.