BIRN journalists in Serbia on Thursday held up banners asking Russian President Vladimir Putin, who had arrived in Belgrade, to release imprisoned journalists in Russia and to respect human rights....

Human Rights Watch, HRW, said in its World Report 2019, published on Thursday, that Balkan countries made only modest progress last year in the field of human rights, citing lack...

Serbia's Prosecutor’s Office for Organize Crime said it is awaiting more extensive expertise before deciding whether to take on the case of man recently arrested by the police and allegedly...

They were also acquitted of killing two other Bosniaks in Barakovic, and two more in Kalata near Prijedor. But the court ordered a retrial for Vlasenko over one accusation of...

An Interpol red notice, the closest mechanism to an international arrest warrant, has been issued for for Jozo Djojic after he did not turn up to start serving his six-year-sentence...

With coordinated international action stymied by division on Syria between the major world powers, individual legal teams and prosecutors in a number of European states have taken up the challenge...

The Bosnian state prosecution employs more war crime prosecutors than it filed war crime indictments in 2018, shows an analysis carried out by BIRN. During the course of the year,...

The unconfirmed indictment alleges that the victims were tortured and abused in an extremely humiliating manner, causing severe physical and mental injuries. It also said they were sexually abused and...

Last year, two families from the central Bosnian town of Zenica reported their daughters to the local police, worried they were becoming religiously radicalised by their partners. The girls, aged...

“As a result of the shelling on several occasions in May and June 1995, a 15-year-old child died and several civilians were injured. The shelling caused major damage to property,”...