Saturday, 26 april 2025.
UN Court Again Rejects Bosnian Serb Commander’s Plea for Release
The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals for a third time rejected the early release request of the wartime leader of a Bosnian Serb Army reconnaissance unit who was sentenced...
Netherlands Pays Compensation for Hundreds of Srebrenica Victims
A commission set up to recompense relatives of certain Srebrenica genocide victims because Dutch peacekeeping troops failed to protect them has paid out millions of euros in compensation for 611...
Filming Horror: How Videographer Captured Srebrenica’s Last Moments Before Genocide
Ibro Zahirovic filmed life in the besieged enclave during the Bosnian war and captured the last moments before it fell in July 1995 – escaping with videos that were later...
Right Sector Una: Spreading Right-Wing Extremism through Telegram Group
Researcher Mirza Buljubasic spent months undercover in the Telegram channel of Right Sector Una, a new right-wing group, before they introduced stricter oversight of members. For Detektor, he analyses the...
Online Hate Speech, Threats Target LGBTIQ Community Before Bosnian Pride
Social media giant Meta said it removed offensive and threatening comments about the Bosnian Pride March on a Sarajevo-based website, but Detektor journalists found that some of them were still...
Internet Freedom Meet in North Macedonia: Solving Challenges Requires Society’s Involvement
Educating citizens about the sharing of data on the Internet, where gender-based violence, disinformation and other harmful narratives abound, is a necessity, BIRN’s Internet Freedom Meet conference in Skopje heard.
Bosnia Upholds Serb Ex-Soldiers’ Sentences for Executing Bosniak Villagers
The Bosnian state court confirmed the verdict sentencing ten former soldiers to a total of 162 years in prison for participating in the mass execution of 24 Bosniak civilians in...
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels in the Balkans gain ground in Recruitment and Disinformation War
More than half a million people follow pro-Russian Telegram channels covering the Balkans in Serbian and Russian languages. Followers are being urged to donate military equipment to Russia and join...
Bosnia Clears Serb Ex-Commander of War Crimes Against Civilians
Bosnia’s state court has confirmed its first-instance verdict and cleared Bosnian Serb Army company commander Rade Macura of involvement in war crimes in a village in the Bosanska Gradiska area...