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A court in Belgrade jailed former Bosnian Serb fighter Zeljko Budimir for two years for assaulting and robbing a Bosniak civilian in Bosnia’s Kljuc municipality during wartime in November 1992. Belgrade Higher Court on Tuesday sentenced Bosnian Serb ex-fighter Zeljko Budimir to two years in prison for beating up a Bosnian civilian and stealing his money in the village of Rejzovici in the Kljuc municipality in November 1992.

Sarajevo Canton lawmaker Damir Marjanovic has put forward legislation aimed at sanctioning hate speech in public in the Bosnian capital, where he said that people are currently being “insulted with impunity”.

A Belgrade court sentenced Nikola Vida Lujic, a former member of Serbian State Security’s notorious Special Operations Unit, to eight years in prison for raping a woman in Brcko in Bosnia in June 1992. Belgrade Higher Court on Thursday convicted Nikola Vida Lujic, a former member of the Special Operations Unit, an elite Serbian special forces unit also known as the Red Berets, of raping a Bosnian women in Brcko on June 20, 1992, and sentenced him to eight years in prison.

Former Bosnian Serb fighter Radomir Susnjar, who is on trial for killing 57 Bosniaks in a house that was set on fire in Visegrad in 1992, asked for an acquittal, telling the court he was innocent.

Over two decades after Sead Buturovic was given little improvised coffins containing his mother and sister’s remains, no senior officer has been convicted of command responsibility for the wartime killings of civilians in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Konjic area.

After repeated delays caused by another defendant’s health problems, the trial of Miroslav Kraljevic, the Serb mayor of the Bosnian town of Vlasenica, who is accused of wartime crimes against Bosniak civilians, will start next month.

Eight Bosniaks are being retried for committing crimes against Serb and Croat civilian prisoners who were illegally held in detention camps in the Hadzici area during wartime.

Two people convicted of rape during the Bosnian war have voluntarily paid 15,400 euros in compensation to their victim - the first time that perpetrators of wartime sexual violence have done so in the country.

Police arrested former Bosnian Serb Army soldiers Radovan Paprica and Slavko Ognjenovic, who are suspected of committing multiple rape and sexual abuse in the Foca area in 1992. State Investigation and Protection Agency police arrested Radovan Paprica, also known as Papro, and Slavko Ognjenovic, alias Macak, on Sunday on charges of the multiple rape and sexual abuse of Bosniaks in the Foca area of eastern Bosnia in 1992.

The defence lawyer for Ibro Merkez, a wartime police commander in Gorazde on trial for involvement in unlawfully detaining, abusing and killing Serb civilians in 1992, said he should be acquitted.

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Serbian Court Convicts Bosnian Serb of Wartime Assault

Sarajevo Politician Champions Legislation to Outlaw Hate Speech

Serbia Convicts ‘Red Berets’ Fighter of Wartime Rape

Bosnian Serb Ex-Fighter ‘Didn’t Kill’ Bosniaks in Burning House

Commanders Go Unpunished for Killings in Bosnia’s Konjic

Bosnian Mayor’s Long-Delayed War Crimes Trial to Begin

Bosnia Retries Eight for Wartime Jail Camp Abuses

Bosnian War Rape Convicts Compensate Victim for First Time

Bosnia Arrests Two Serb Ex-Soldiers for Multiple Rape

Bosnian Ex-Police Chief Asks for War Crimes Acquittal

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