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.

A BIRN investigation reveals serious holes in content policing by Facebook and Twitter in the Balkans.

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...

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...

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...

Evidence collected by BIRN paints a damning picture of conditions facing Chinese workers in Serbia. Rights experts warn of ‘human trafficking’.

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...

Far-right extremism in Slovakia is not limited to Marian Kotleba, though the neofascist leader has, more than anyone else, helped radicalisation go mainstream.

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...