11. March 2024.
Appeal judges at the Bosnian state court upheld the verdict convicting five former policemen of torturing Bosniak civilian detainees in the north-eastern town of Janja from 1992 to 1994.
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6. March 2024.
Bosnian Serb Army ex-soldier Milenko Macanovic was sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison for war crimes for killing a Bosniak civilian prisoner who was detained at a school in Kljuc in 1992 and injuring another.
5. March 2024.
The president of the Military Trade Union of Serbia, Novica Antic, is under investigation in Serbia for embezzlement. He maintains close ties with people connected to the regime of Vladimir Putin, while also maintaining contacts in European security circles and veterans in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
4. March 2024.
Most people with developmental difficulties or intellectual disabilities want to work for their living, but in Bosnia and Herzegovina, only a few decide to accept jobs because they could lose their right to welfare benefits.
4. March 2024.
The UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague has sent the contempt of court case against ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj and four co-accused to the Serbian judiciary for trial in Belgrade.
29. February 2024.
Peter Gasparovic, who was sentenced in Slovakia for corruption, fled to Mostar while on parole and has sought asylum there, becoming the third senior Slovak security official to have taken refuge in Bosnia in the last few years.
27. February 2024.
Samir Nukic was charged with inciting ethnic, racial and religious hatred for writing posts on Facebook insulting Croat children who were killed in an artillery attack in the town of Vitez during wartime in 1993.
27. February 2024.
Modelled on a similar project in Sarajevo, the War Childhood Museum in Kyiv documents Ukrainian children’s memories of their everyday life during the ongoing invasion.
27. February 2024.
On the 31st anniversary of the abduction and execution of 20 non-Serb passengers seized from a train in Strpci in Bosnia during wartime, victims’ relatives expressed discontent about alleged perpetrators’ recent acquittals in Serbia.
21. February 2024.
In pursuing trial after trial for war crimes committed by Russian forces, Ukraine is failing to put the victims at the heart of a much-needed transitional justice strategy. To see the result of such an approach Kyiv need only look at Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.