Justice TV Archives

Websites registered in countries with large expatriate Bosnian communities often publish fake news stories containing hate speech, nationalistic narratives and propaganda, with a negative effect on social, ethnic and political relations back home, analysis by BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina shows.

Political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina surreptitiously swap seats on the committees that oversee polling stations, allowing them to influence the vote count on election day to their own advantage – and it’s not illegal.

Local judicial institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina are often criticised for imposing low penalties for returnees from foreign battlefields. Several European countries began trying former fighters for terrorism and war crimes, increasing the sentences handed down to them. We have analysed what needs to be done by domestic judicial institutions to start prosecuting such crimes, what needs to be done to collect evidence and why experts consider that the Bosnian judiciary is ready.

Public displays of support for war crimes defendants, nationalist political rhetoric and Bosnian Serb officials’ denials of the Srebrenica genocide are causing unease among Bosniaks who have returned to the town after fleeing during the war.

Trials with large numbers of defendants cannot resume because of the problem of safe social distancing at the Bosnian state court, which will further slow the process of dealing with the country’s huge backlog of war crimes cases.

Hundreds of families in Bosnia and Herzegovina have been searching for the remains of their loved ones for a quarter of a century – and the agonising wait has now been prolonged again by the coronavirus pandemic.

Bosnia’s Strategy for Prevention and Combatting Terrorism, which expires this year, has not received nearly enough resources to succeed – and clear terrorism prevention systems have yet to be set up in all local communities, analysis by BIRN shows.

Sensationalist media reporting about terrorism and violent extremism in Bosnia and Herzegovina exaggerates the phenomenon, spreading fear while distorting public understanding of a complex issue.

The authorities are making preparations to reintegrate Bosnian supporters of Islamic State when they return from camps in Syria – and considering whether female ISIS followers should be prosecuted for joining the militants.

Bosnian Serb ruling party officials and their aides have close and deepening ties to Russian nationalists involved in the war in eastern Ukraine and in promoting the image of Serbs who fight there illegally.

Justice TV

Episode 118: Bosnian Diaspora-Based Websites Promote Nationalistic Narratives

Episode 117: Bosnian Polling Station Abuses are ‘Mechanism for Vote Theft’

Episode 116: Can Bosnia try former ISIS fighters for war crimes?

Episode 115: Nationalism Festers in Srebrenica, 25 Years after Genocide

Episode 114: Coronavirus Safeguards Stop Large-Scale Bosnian War Trials Resuming

Episode 113: Pandemic Prolongs Families’ Long Wait to Find Wartime Missing

Episode 110: Prevention Remains Biggest Challenge to Anti-Terrorism Strategy

Episode 108: Bosnian Media Reports on Terrorism Spread Fear and Misinformation

Episode 106: Bosnia Nervously Awaits ISIS Women and Children’s Return

Episode 104: Ukraine War Veterans Bind Russia and Bosnian Serbs

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