23. February 2021.
Five ethnic Albanians were convicted of the 2012 killings of five ethnic Macedonians in Skopje after a high-profile retrial in a case that has sparked ethnic tensions in the country.
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16. February 2021.
A BIRN investigation reveals serious holes in content policing by Facebook and Twitter in the Balkans.
8. February 2021.
Belgrade Higher Court agreed that a Bosnian Serb ex-policeman accused of involvement in killing 1,313 Bosniaks from Srebrenica in 1995 can no longer stand trial alongside his seven co-defendants because of his mental health problems.
4. February 2021.
Husein Mujanovic, who was sentenced to ten years in jail for beating Serb prisoners at a Bosnian Army-run military prison in Hrasnica near Sarajevo during wartime, appealed for an acquittal or a retrial.
2. February 2021.
In the last two years, 30 per cent of court hearings in war crimes trials in Serbia have been postponed, raising concerns about the country’s commitment to the rule of law - a key issue in its EU membership negotiations.
26. January 2021.
Evidence collected by BIRN paints a damning picture of conditions facing Chinese workers in Serbia. Rights experts warn of ‘human trafficking’.
26. January 2021.
The seven-month armed conflict that erupted between rebels and security forces in North Macedonia in January 2001 is now seen as a turning point for ethnic relations between the country’s Macedonian majority and Albanian minority.
22. January 2021.
Far-right extremism in Slovakia is not limited to Marian Kotleba, though the neofascist leader has, more than anyone else, helped radicalisation go mainstream.
20. January 2021.
Nezir Cocaj, an MP who is running for re-election in next month’s parliamentary polls, was called for questioning by the Specialist Prosecutor’s Office in The Hague, which is probing wartime and post-war crimes.
19. January 2021.
Former Prime Minister Agim Ceku and 11 other defendants were acquitted of falsifying a list of Kosovo Liberation Army war veterans so non-combatants could illegally claim welfare benefits.
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