Saturday, 10 january 2026.
Suing to Silence: Lawsuits Used to Censor Bosnian Journalists
Public officials are behind the overwhelming majority of defamation cases brought against Bosnian journalists, dragging them through expensive and often lengthy court proceedings that make many think twice about the...
Bosnian, Serbian Schoolbooks Teach Rival Versions of History
History textbooks for secondary school pupils in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s two ethnically-dominated entities and in Serbia give different accounts of what happened during the 1990s Bosnian war, further entrenching divisions...
Facebook Urged to Ban Srebrenica Genocide Denial
After Facebook banned content that denies the Holocaust, the Institute for Research of Genocide Canada has called on the social network to apply the same policy to the denial of...
Bosnia Urged to Reduce Length of War Crimes Trials
Some war crimes trials in Bosnia and Herzegovina can last for five years or more, delaying justice even longer for victims of a conflict that ended more than two decades...
Bosnian Diaspora-Based Websites Promote Nationalistic Narratives Online
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...
Access Denied: Most Balkan War Crimes Case Files Not Public
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo and Serbia, most of the case files and evidence from war crime trials are not immediately accessible to journalists, researchers and the general public,...
Two Bereaved Bosnian Families’ Hopes for Justice Dwindle
The families of two men who were killed while fleeing their homes during the Bosnian war in 1993 have appealed to prosecutors many times to find the killers - but...
QAnon Gets Foothold in Balkans, Claiming COVID-19 “Does Not Exist”
Facebook and Twitter say they are fighting the spread of conspiracy theories linked to QAnon. In the Balkans, the movement is just getting started.
Bosnian Polling Station Abuses are ‘Mechanism for Vote Theft’
Political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina surreptitiously swap seats on the committees that oversee polling stations, and although it’s not illegal, it allows them to influence the vote count on...