The presidency urged state institutions to work faster to ensure the safe return of Bosnian women and children who were formerly living in Islamic State-controlled territory and are now in camps in Syria and Iraq.
Hardcore fans of Partizan Belgrade football club staged a noisy demonstration in support of Ratko Mladic outside the UN detention unit near The Hague, where the wartime Bosnian Serb military chief is in custody.
The transfer of less serious war crimes cases from Bosnia’s state-level prosecution to lower-level prosecutors was supposed to speed up the processing of major cases - but plans to make this happen have not been fulfilled.
The Bosnian state prosecution filed an extradition request for war crimes suspect Osman Osmanovic, who was arrested in Serbia for allegedly assaulting and abusing captured Serb civilians and prisoners of war in 1992.
The state prosecution in Sarajevo asked the Bosnian Justice Ministry on Wednesday to send a request for Bosniak ex-fighter Osman Osmanovic’s extradition from Serbia.
Former fighter Osman Osmanovic, suspected of assaulting and abusing captured Serb civilians and prisoners of war in the summer of 1992 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was remanded in custody by a Belgrade court.
The acquittal of an Algerian migrant charged with murder in Bosnia has spurred calls for a change to the law and court rules on establishing the identity of a defendant.
Former police chief Malko Koroman was charged with the abuse and torture of several dozen Bosniak prisoners who were detained during wartime in the town of Pale, some of whom died.
Five former Bosniak fighters went on trial for physically abusing captured Bosnian Serb Army soldiers in the Visegrad, Gorazde and Rogatica areas between 1992 and 1995.
The trial of former Bosniak fighters Mustafa Stovrag, Camil Ramic, Mehmedalija Topalovic, Himzo Selimovic and Ramiz Micivoda, who are all accused of prisoner abuse during wartime, opened at the Bosnian state court in Sarajevo on Monday.
Belgrade Higher Court convicted former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Joja Plavanjac of killing 11 people at a prison in Bosanska Krupa in Bosnia in August 1992 and his fellow ex-serviceman Zdravko Narancic of helping him.