The Bosnian state prosecution filed a motion calling for an extended custody remand for Armen Dzelko, who is charged with organising a terrorist group with the aim of fighting in Syria and Iraq.
Two Kosovo Serbs were recently charged with raping women during the war in 1999 – but their indictments highlighted how Kosovo’s courts have not managed to convict anyone of wartime sexual violence in two decades. When Zoran Vukotic, a former Serbian police officer in Kosovo, was charged with earlier this month with raping a 16-year-old […]
The state prosecution requested extension to Milarem Berbic’s custody remand so it can complete its investigation into his involvement in the fighting in Syria.
The Bosnian state prosecution requested an extension to the custody remand for Muharem Dunic, who is suspected fighting for Islamic State in Syria, because it is still waiting for evidence to arrive from Austria.
The Bosnian state prosecution filed an indictment charging Jasmin Keserovic, alias Muhamed, with going to Syria, organising a terrorist group and publicly inciting terrorist activities.
The Bosnian state prosecution filed an indictment charging Senad Kasupovic, also known as Muatesim, with organising a terrorist group and fighting in Syria.
The UN court in The Hague turned down a request from Ratko Mladic’s defence to introduce new evidence before the former Bosnian Serb military leader’s appeal against his conviction is heard. The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague said on Thursday that it has rejected a request to introduce new evidence about the […]
Courts in Trebinje and Bijeljina in Bosnia and Herzegovina have rejected pleas to ban Serb nationalist Chetnik associations for allegedly inciting ethnic hatred and intolerance. The Basic Courts in Trebinje and Bijeljina told BIRN that they have turned down requests to ban associations whose names contain the words ‘Chetnik Movement’ or ‘Ravna Gora Movement’. The […]
Almin Djelilovic was 21 when he was seized by Bosnian Serb forces and held in detention camps where he was beaten up and forced to work on the frontlines, carry corpses and loot houses - trying all the while just to survive.
Four former Bosnian Serb Army soldiers urged the state court in Sarajevo to acquit them of the murders of 28 Bosniak and Croat civilians in the village of Oborci in central Bosnia in September 1995. In closing statements at the Bosnian state court, lawyers for former soldiers Branko Cigoja, Zeljko Todic, Sasa Boskic and Milorad […]