Saturday, 27 june 2026.
Bosnian Court Rejects Wartime Rape Defendant’s Appeal
The Bosnian Constitutional Court rejected an appeal by Zarko Vukovic, a former Bosnian Serb Army soldier who was sentenced to seven years in prison for repeatedly raping a woman in...
Bosnian Court Lifts Movement Restrictions on Turkish Citizen
A court lifted restrictions imposed on a Turkish school employee, but for the intelligence service he remains a ‘threat to national security’. A court in Bosnia and Herzegovina has terminated...
Bosnian Serb Ex-Policeman Charged with Murdering Civilians
Former reservist policeman Milorad Krunic has been charged with crimes against humanity for his alleged involvement in the killing of six civilians in the Sanski Most area in 1992. The...
Free War Crime Convicts amid Pandemic, UN Court Urged
An association of lawyers working at international courts urged the UN tribunal in The Hague to grant early or provisional release to elderly war crime convicts to protect them from...
Bosnia Extends Custody for Syria Terrorism Indictees
The state court has extended its custody remand orders for alleged Islamic State fighters Senad Kasupovic and Jasmin Keserovic. It said that Kasupovic can be held in custody until the...
Serbia’s Progress on War Crimes Cases ‘Negligible’: Report
The Serbian war crimes prosecution only issued three indictments in 2019, two of which were in cases transferred from Bosnia and Herzegovina, said a new report by the Humanitarian Law...
Bosnian Serb Ex-Fighter’s Conviction for Mass Killing Upheld
Susnjar has been jailed for 20 years, his lawyer Dejan Bogdanovic confirmed to BIRN. “The defence’s appeal has been rejected and the first-instance verdict confirmed,” Bogdanovic said. The first-instance verdict...
Bosnian Croat’s Sentence for Rape, Prisoner Abuse Upheld
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Constitutional Court rejected an appeal by former Croatian Defence Council military policeman Mate Baotic against the verdict convicting him of war crimes in Orasje in 1992. The...
Gavrilo Stevic: ‘They Tried to Recruit Me into Fighting in Ukraine’
Gavrilo Stevic was acquitted on March 10 of going to fight in Ukraine after being the first person to be prosecuted for such an offence in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Stevic...
US Judge Approves Extradition of Bosnian War Rape Suspect
Judge Patricia Cohen’s order said that the prosecution’s request “contains sufficient competent evidence to grant the certificate of Kosjerevac’s extraditability”. The final decision the extradition is up to the US...
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