9. November 2021.
Delays and design errors have cost Serbia tens of millions of dollars in the process of upgrading the rail connection between Belgrade to Budapest, BIRN can reveal.
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9. November 2021.
The heads of the Kosovo Liberation Army Veterans’ Association called the Hague-based war crimes court ‘biased’ and said they had done nothing wrong by revealing confidential court documents to media.
8. November 2021.
A Serbian human rights NGO filed a lawsuit against the Interior Ministry after it banned activists from holding a gathering to erase a mural of Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic from a wall in Belgrade.
8. November 2021.
Psychoanalyst Wiola Rebecka says her new book about sexual assault during wartime highlights how rape survivors in Kosovo felt afraid to tell anyone about what happened to them, prolonging the trauma that they suffered.
2. November 2021.
A fresh postponement in the trial of 11 Yugoslav Army soldiers accused of committing crimes against civilians during the Kosovo war means that there has been no hearing in the case since November 2019.
28. October 2021.
The Kosovo Specialist Chambers rejected an appeal for conditional release by former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci, who is in custody in the Netherlands awaiting trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
27. October 2021.
Official policies on the memorialisation of the 1990s wars downplay or deny crimes committed by Serbian forces and glorify war criminals, says a new report by the Belgrade-based Humanitarian Law Centre.
25. October 2021.
Often criticised for its attitude to war crimes, Serbia says it wants to try more cases, protect victims and cooperate better with other ex-Yugoslav countries to deliver justice – but key problems remain unaddressed in its new five-year strategy.
21. October 2021.
Kosovo’s Supreme Court upheld the verdict sentencing Nenad Arsic to six years in prison for assaulting two Kosovo Albanians and forcing one to drink alcohol and sing a Serbian song during a police operation in 1999.
21. October 2021.
Montenegro has arrested Slobodan Pekovic for the alleged killing of two Bosniaks and raping civilians in southeast Bosnia in 1992, when he was a Bosnian Serb soldier.
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