Thursday, 28 may 2026.
Closed Hearings at Serbian Security Chiefs’ Trial Cause Mistrust
Witnesses at the Hague retrial of former state security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, which offers the last chance to assess the role of Serbian units in the wars...
Council of Europe Urged to Back Srebrenica Remembrance Day
The Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner, Dunja Mijatovic, urged the European rights and democracy organisation to adopt July 11 as an official remembrance day for the victims of the...
UN Tribunal Chief: Genocide Deniers Should be Prosecuted
The president of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, Carmel Agius, said in Sarajevo that the people who deny genocide should be condemned and prosecuted.
Rise in Bosnian Defamation Cases Raises Censorship Fears
Defamation lawsuits against journalists are being increasingly used as a censorship tool in Bosnia, experts say, warning that judges’ lack of expertise on defamation laws is leading to bad verdicts.
Serbian Security Chiefs Begin Defence at Hague Trial
In the defence’s opening statement at the retrial of former Serbian state security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, Stanisic’s lawyer told the court his client was not involved in...
Bosnian Prosecution ‘Failing on Complex War Crime Cases’: OSCE
Final convictions have been significantly lower in the past two years, and the Bosnian prosecution has not been investing invest time and resources in investigating the most complex cases, said...
Bosnian Mosques Targeted by Vandalism, Srebrenica Threats
Bosnian Islamic community leaders said that gravestones have been damaged and Serb nationalist stickers referring to the Srebrenica massacres have been put up at Muslim religious buildings.
Serbian Nationalist Flaunts Freedom with Ukraine Call to Arms
Bratislav Zivkovic has made no secret of his ties to Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, but prosecutors in Serbia dropped an investigation against him.
Bosnia Increases Sentence for Killings of Serbs in Brcko
The sentence handed down to former Croatian Defence Council brigade commander Mensur Djakic for not punishing the killers of three Serb captives in the Brcko District in 1992 was increased...
Bosnian Serb Plan for New Police Force Revives Wartime Fears
In Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska, where reservist policemen committed war crimes and persecuted non-Serbs in the 1990s, the authorities plan to set up a new reservist force, sparking fears among...
Bosnia Finds Suspected Wartime Mass Grave on Mount Igman
A mass grave has been discovered on Mount Igman near Sarajevo containing human remains that the Bosnian prosecution believes are those of Bosniak war victims who disappeared in 1992. Bosnia’s...
Memorial to Bosnian Croats Killed in Wartime Destroyed
The Croat member of the tripartite Bosnian state presidency, Zeljko Komsic, described the destruction of a memorial to Croats killed in 1992 in the village of Brisevo, near Prijedor, as...