9. March 2021.
A BIRN research of the working conditions facing journalists in the Balkans since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic makes for grim reading.
Region
8. March 2021.
Under fire from politicians in an increasing hostile atmosphere in Kosovo, the Hague-based Kosovo Specialist Chambers needs to strike deals with EU countries to relocate witnesses and their families to ensure they can testify without fear of intimidation.
5. March 2021.
A Belgrade court ruled that the case of Husein Mujanovic, sentenced to ten years in prison for beating Serbs at a prison near Sarajevo in 1992, will have to go to a retrial.
5. March 2021.
Music played a part in the political upheaval and conflicts in the Balkans in the 1990s. Today it is crossing borders and offering hope.
4. March 2021.
In trying to control the pandemic narrative, governments in the region have turned to draconian tools, muzzling media, arresting critics and bombarding social media giants with requests to take down posts and shut down accounts.
26. February 2021.
A Greek police spokesperson has dismissed reports that Christos Pappas, a convicted senior member of the far-right Golden Dawn party, has fled to monastery in Serbia to escape serving his 13-year jail term at home.
24. February 2021.
A court in Belgrade upheld the verdict sentencing former Bosnian Serb Army serviceman Zeljko Maricic to two years in prison for beating up Bosniak prisoners in the town of Kljuc in May 1992.
24. February 2021.
A court in the Serbian capital delivered a final verdict sentencing ex-soldier Milan Dragisic to five years in prison for killing one civilian and attempting to kill two others in Bosanski Petrovac during the Bosnian war in 1992.
23. February 2021.
Former Bosnian Serb fighter Zeljko Budimir was jailed for two years after a retrial in Belgrade for assaulting and robbing a Bosniak civilian in Bosnia’s Kljuc municipality during wartime in November 1992.
23. February 2021.
Three decades after Russian reporters Viktor Nogin and Gennadiy Kurinnoy were shot dead during the war in Croatia, two unnamed members of a rebel Serb special police unit have been charged with killing them.
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