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An association of lawyers working at international courts urged the UN tribunal in The Hague to grant early or provisional release to elderly war crime convicts to protect them from the coronavirus. The Association of Defence Counsel Practising Before the International Courts and Tribunals urged the UN’s Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague […]

The Bosnian state court has ordered a custody remand extension for Senad Kasupovic and Jasmin Keserovic, who have been charged with organising a terrorist group and going to Syria to fight.

The Serbian war crimes prosecution only issued three indictments in 2019, two of which were in cases transferred from Bosnia and Herzegovina, said a new report by the Humanitarian Law Centre. The Belgrade-based Humanitarian Law Centre NGO said in a report published on Wednesday that Serbian war crimes prosecutors are continuing to issue only a […]

A court confirmed ex-fighter Radomir Susnjar’s 20-year sentence for his involvement in killing 26 Bosniak civilians, including a baby, in a house that he helped to set on fire in Visegrad in 1992. The appeals chamber of the Bosnian state court has upheld the verdict convicting Radomir Susnjar of involvement in wartime crimes in the Visegrad area in June 1992, including the murder of 26 civilians – one of them a two-day-old baby – who were locked inside a house that was then burned.

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Gavrilo Stevic, the first person charged in Bosnia and Herzegovina with fighting in Ukraine, told BIRN after his acquittal why he went to the country’s war-ravaged east and how a Chetnik ‘duke’ tried to convince him to take up arms.

A US federal court approved the extradition of former Bosnian Army military policeman Adem Kostjerevac to face trial for allegedly raping a pregnant Serb woman in the Zvornik area during the war in 1992. The US Federal Court in Missouri on Monday approved an extradition request from Bosnia and Herzegovina for Adem Kostjerevac, who is wanted for trial in Sarajevo on war crimes charges.

Many people in Bosnia and Herzegovina are self-isolating at home to protect themselves from the coronavirus, but migrants and refugees living in squatted buildings and tent camps are more vulnerable to infection because they can’t take the same precautions.

The Bosnian state court confirmed indictments charging Jasmin Keserovic and Senad Kasupovic with organising a terrorist group and fighting in Syria, and Keserovic with inciting others to take part in terrorist activities.

A year after Radovan Karadzic was convicted of genocide and other wartime crimes, no one who helped the former Bosnian Serb political leader to evade capture for 12 years has been convicted in Bosnia and Herzegovina or Serbia. Since the UN court in The Hague convicted former Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic on March 20, […]

The Bosnian state prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina has requested extended custody remands for Senad Kasupovic and Jasmin Keserovic after they were both indicted for terrorism.

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Free War Crime Convicts amid Pandemic, UN Court Urged

Bosnia Extends Custody for Syria Terrorism Indictees

Serbia’s Progress on War Crimes Cases ‘Negligible’: Report

Bosnian Serb Ex-Fighter’s Conviction for Mass Killing Upheld

Gavrilo Stevic: ‘They Tried to Recruit Me into Fighting in Ukraine’

US Judge Approves Extradition of Bosnian War Rape Suspect

Migrants in Bosnia ‘More Vulnerable to Infection’ Despite Lockdown

Charges Against Two Bosnians for Fighting in Syria Confirmed

No Convictions for Radovan Karadzic’s ‘Helpers in Hiding’

Custody Extension Urged for Bosnian Islamic State Suspects

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