Thursday, 8 may 2025.
The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in numbers
In the past ten years the Bosnian state court has sentenced 140 persons to 1881 years in prison.
The Court Behind Closed Doors
The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which used to serve as an example of good cooperation between the judiciary and the public, has been increasingly withholding information about war crime...
229 Years of Imprisonment for Convictions Reached Through Plea Agreements
Over the past ten years, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has accepted 27 plea agreements in cases of war crimes, which have resulted in a total of 229 years...
Appeals Based on Incorrect Application of Law Shorten Verdicts, Release Convicts
After the European Court for Human Rights (ECHR) determined that the Bosnian state court incorrectly applied the criminal code of Bosnia and Herzegovina in two war crimes cases, more than...
Prijedor’s Articles of Death
In the summer of 1992, the newspaper Kozarski Vjesnik published a story stating that a doctor from Prijedor, Osman Mahmuljin, knowingly gave bad medical treatment to a colleague, Zivko Dukic,...
Problematic Hiring Procedures at HJPC Worry Bosnia’s Legal Community
Some the candidates who were elected as the best possible fits for positions at the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina never raised an indictment. Young and without extensive prosecutorial...
Childhood in Captivity: The Stories of Thousands of Children Imprisoned During the Bosnian War
During the Bosnian war, approximately 7500 children and adolescents were detained in camps across the country, where they were subjected to various forms of torture. Childhood in captivity marked them,...
Analysis – Zaim Lalicic: Accused of Rape and Prisoner Abuse at Hrasnica
The Bosnian state court will issue a first instance verdict against Zaim Lalicic on May 21. Lalicic has been charged with war crimes in the Sarajevo settlement of Hrasnica, in...
Bosnia War Legacy Reduces Number of Mixed Marriages
Twenty years after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the majority of young people don’t want to marry or date someone from a different ethnic group or religion, data suggests.