Belgrade and Sarajevo are to sign an agreement to cooperate over war crimes cases, but some victims fear that it may not bring more convictions.

During the nine-month trial, the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina tried to prove the guilt of Muhidin Basic and Mirsad Sijak, who are indicted for war crimes of rape in...

During the eighteen-month long trial of Bozidar Kuvelja, who is indicted of shooting of men from Srebrenica inside and in front of the Kravica Farming Co-operative (Bratunac municipality) in July...

30 persons were sentenced to a total of 483 and half years in prison during this year before the Section for War Crimes of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

BIRN - Justice Report has completed seven years of operation despite the problem of anonymisation and the refusal by authorities to issue complete and intact audio and video materials from...

Three years since Bosnia adopted a war-crimes strategy, hopes grow that the prosecution of war crimes perpetrators may finally speed up, although no increase in indictments has yet occurred.

The current ‘anonymization’ of court verdicts, especially on war crimes, harms the judicial system and wider society, lawyers, experts, and victims say.

About 200 people from Ilijas were killed in spring 1992 following a Bosnian Serb assault on the town and surrounding villages – and over 50 remain missing. Yet almost no...

During the presentation of evidence at the trial of the indictee Eso Macic, the Prosecution tried to prove that he participated in the killings and beatings of prisoners in the...