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The UN court in The Hague postponed appeal hearings in the trial of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic, who is challenging his conviction for genocide and other crimes, because he needs to undergo surgery. The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague said on Wednesday that it has postponed appeal hearings that […]

In the first case of its kind in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the state court acquitted Gavrilo Stevic of going to join a pro-Russian separatist unit in the conflict in eastern Ukraine. The state court in Sarajevo on Tuesday found Gavrilo Stevic not guilty of going to fight abroad, in the first case in Bosnia and […]

Ahead of Ratko Mladic’s appeal against his conviction for genocide and other wartime crimes, Srebrenica victims’ relatives are becoming anxious about the outcome after judges were replaced for alleged bias against the Bosnian Serb commander. Mirsada Malagic is one of the key witnesses of the Srebrenica genocide in July 1995. Six members of her family […]

An appeals court in Belgrade upheld the verdict sentencing Nikola Vida Lujic, a former member of Serbia’s Red Berets special forces unit, to eight years in prison for raping a woman in Brcko in Bosnia in 1992. Belgrade Appeals Court has confirmed a verdict sentencing Nikola Vida Lujic, a former member of the Special Operations […]

The state court will hand down its first judgment on March 10 in the case of a Bosnian citizen accused of going to fight in Ukraine with a Russian-backed separatist unit.

Former Bosnian Serb fighter Dusan Spasojevic, who is on trial for raping a Bosniak woman during the war in May 1992, did not turn up for a court hearing and told his relatives that he has absconded. A hearing in the case against wartime Territorial Defence fighter Dusan Spasojevic at the Bosnian state court in […]

In the second report in BIRN’s Forgotten Victims series about the Bosnian war, relatives of elderly Croats killed in the village of Susanj in 1993 demand to know why the investigation into the crime has not resulted in any indictments.

Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic’s defence said he has serious health problems including a potential stroke and asked for his appeal against his conviction for genocide and other wartime crimes to be postponed. Ratko Mladic’s defence lawyers said on Monday that they have asked the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague […]

The UN court in The Hague refused to grant early release to Radoslav Brdjanin, wartime leader of the self-proclaimed, Serb-run Autonomous Region of Krajina because of the seriousness of his crimes and lack of rehabilitation. The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague said on Monday that it has decided not to grant early […]

Interpol has issued a ‘red notice’ calling for the arrest of Milojko Kovacevic, a former Bosnian Serb reservist policeman charged with crimes against humanity in the Visegrad area in 1992. A ‘red notice’ has been posted on Interpol’s online wanted list calling on countries worldwide to arrest Milojko Kovacevic, who is accused of the forcibly […]

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Hague Court Postpones Ailing Ratko Mladic’s Genocide Appeal

Bosnian Acquitted of Going to Fight in Ukrainian Conflict

Ratko Mladic’s Appeal Causes Anxiety for Bosnian War Survivors

Serbia Confirms ‘Red Berets’ Fighter’s Wartime Rape Conviction

Bosnia to Deliver First Verdict for Fighting in Ukraine

Bosnian Serb War Rape Defendant Absconds from Trial

‘The Elderly Were Liquidated’: An Unprosecuted Bosnian Village Atrocity

Ratko Mladic Seeks Appeal Delay Over Health Problems

Bosnian Serb War Criminal Denied Early Release from Jail

Interpol Urges Arrest of Bosnian Serb War Crime Suspect

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