Friday, 24 july 2026.
Sarajevo Politician Champions Legislation to Outlaw Hate Speech
Sarajevo Canton lawmaker Damir Marjanovic has put forward legislation aimed at sanctioning hate speech in public in the Bosnian capital, where he said that people are currently being “insulted with...
Serbia Convicts ‘Red Berets’ Fighter of Wartime Rape
A Belgrade court sentenced Nikola Vida Lujic, a former member of Serbian State Security’s notorious Special Operations Unit, to eight years in prison for raping a woman in Brcko in...
Commanders Go Unpunished for Killings in Bosnia’s Konjic
Over two decades after Sead Buturovic was given little improvised coffins containing his mother and sister’s remains, no senior officer has been convicted of command responsibility for the wartime killings...
Bosnian War Rape Convicts Compensate Victim for First Time
Two people convicted of rape during the Bosnian war have voluntarily paid 15,400 euros in compensation to their victim - the first time that perpetrators of wartime sexual violence have...
Bosnia Arrests Two Serb Ex-Soldiers for Multiple Rape
Police arrested former Bosnian Serb Army soldiers Radovan Paprica and Slavko Ognjenovic, who are suspected of committing multiple rape and sexual abuse in the Foca area in 1992. State Investigation...
No Arrests Yet After Death Threats to Bosnian Judges
After more than a year, the unidentified perpetrators who sent threats of death to the president of the Bosnian state court and other judicial officials have still not been prosecuted.
Bosnian Serb General Radislav Krstic Denied Early Release
The UN court rejected a request for early release from former Bosnian Serb commander Radislav Krstic, who is serving a 35-year prison sentence for aiding the genocide of Bosniaks from...
Bosnia Arrests Serb Ex-Soldier for Crime Against Humanity
Police arrested former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Tadi Mitrovic, who has been charged with committing a crime against a Bosniak civilian in the village of Glogova, near Bratunac, in 1992....
OSCE Mission Chief: Bosnia ‘Too Slow’ in Prosecuting War Crimes
The pace of war crimes prosecutions is too slow, with several thousand suspects still unindicted, and the conviction rate is too low, the outgoing chief of the OSCE Mission to...
Bosnian Serbs’ Deaths in Village Massacre Go Unpunished
More than 50 Serbs, including three young children, were killed in an attack by the Bosnian Army on the village of Josanica near Foca in December 1992, but no one...
Hague Rejects Karadzic’s Plea to Reconsider Denial of Appeal
The UN court in The Hague has rejected a request from former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic to reconsider a decision refusing him an appeal against the final sentence...
Wartime Landmines Still Taking Lives in Bosnia
Since 1996, when the demining process started in Bosnia and Herzegovina after the war, a total of 55 Bosnian deminers and 673 civilians have been killed by exploding ordnance.