Sunday, 18 january 2026.
Bosnian War Crime Cases Halted as Ageing Defendants Die
More than two decades have gone by since the end of the 1990s war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the passing years have taken an increasing toll on war crimes...
Suspected Syria Fighters Flown to Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Bosnian state prosecution announced on December 19 that several suspects had arrived in Sarajevo after being repatriated by plane from Syria and were being held in detention. It said...
BIRN Launches Updated Map of Balkan War Crime Verdicts
BIRN has published an updated and improved version of its War Crimes Verdicts Map, an interactive tool that offers an overview of hundreds of court rulings on the crimes committed...
Bosnian Admits Going to Fight for ISIS in Syria
Ibro Cufurovic testified at the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo on December 18 that he went to fight in Syria of his own free will, and told the...
Interpol Warrants Issued for Two Bosnian Serb War Convicts
International ‘red notices’ have been issued for the arrests of ex-fighters Darko Mrdja and Dragan Marjanovic, who have both fled Bosnia and Herzegovina after being convicted of wartime crimes. Bosnia...
Hague Prosecutor: Balkan States Cooperating Poorly on War Cases
Serge Brammertz, the chief prosecutor at the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, told a meeting of prosecutors from former Yugoslav countries about cooperation in war crime cases in Sarajevo on...
Balkan ‘Social Media Jihadis’ More Dangerous than Ex-Fighters
But experts say those who fight online are a greater danger. Since the Islamic State lost its self-proclaimed caliphate late last year and its “caliph” in October, concern in the...
Bosnian Taxpayers Funding Spread of Hardline Salafi Message
And some are funded from state coffers. A number of organisations involved in promoting the hardline Salafi branch of Sunni Islam in Bosnia and Herzegovina are receiving political and financial...
Ratko Mladic’s Appeal Set for March 2020
The UN court sentenced Mladic to life imprisonment in November 2017, finding him guilty of genocide in Srebrenica in 1995, the persecution of Bosniaks and Croats throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina,...
Bosnian Serb War Criminal Indicted for Train Massacre
The prosecution said in a statement that “18 Bosniaks, citizens of Serbia and Montenegro from the Sandzak area”, plus one Croat from Belgrade and one “unknown person of Arab descent”,...
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