18. March 2016.
The Hague Tribunal has legal precedents for some of the charges against Radovan Karadzic, but allegations that genocide was committed in 1992 and UN peacekeepers were taken hostage have never been proven by the court.
Analysis
17. March 2016.
The war crime trial of former Bosnian Army serviceman Samir Bejtic, which has restarted four times and lasted over 12 years, could cost the state more than 1.5 million euros, his lawyer claimed.
25. February 2016.
During an evidence hearing at the trial of Ramiz Avdovic and Iulian Nicolae Vintila, the defense argued that evidence presented by the prosecution didn’t prove that the defendants are guilty of war crimes in Sarajevo.
23. February 2016.
After three failed open calls for applications and nine months of waiting, the Bosnian High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council (HJPC) has yet to elect a new state level judge. According to the HJPC, no good candidates applied.
19. February 2016.
Sarajevo hospital doctors and medical staff remember how they saved more than 50,000 people during the longest siege in modern history, despite shortages of power and medical supplies.
9. February 2016.
The death in custody of Bosnian Serb war criminal Zdravko Tolimir means that 12 defendants at the UN war crimes court in The Hague have now died while on trial or waiting to serve their sentences.
19. January 2016.
After a trial that has lasted more than two years, the Bosnian state court will hand down a verdict in the case of Dzevad Salcin, a former member of the Bosnian Army charged with crimes on Mount Igman in the municipality of Hadzici. The verdict has been scheduled for January 21.
31. December 2015.
As the tenth year of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIRN BiH) comes to a close, the organization looks back on a year of reporting on war crimes trials, revealing nepotism in judicial institutions and monitoring how these institutions handle their expenditures and budgets.
29. December 2015.
In 2015, the Bosnian state court sentenced 45 defendants to a total of 467.5 years in prison for wartime murder, rape, torture and other crimes, including the Srebrenica genocide.
23. December 2015.
The sexual abuse of boys and girls was widespread during the Bosnian war. Although associations of war victims have registered approximately 1000 instances of wartime child rape, experts estimate that the number is much higher.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.