10. September 2021.
Husein Bilal Bosnic, a former leader of the Islamic Salafi movement in Bosnia and Herzegovina, left prison on September 3, 2021 after having served a seven-year sentence for publicly inciting terrorist acts.
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6. August 2021.
The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network brings you a story of a young woman,
who left to Syria before graduating from high school, at the age of 19, and recently returned
to Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as a woman, who is still in one of the camps awaiting her
return. We discuss the importance of identifying and preventing radical and extremist
behaviour among school kids. Experts aruge that this type of behaviour can be observed in
schools, pointing out that teaching staff needs additional education on the topic during their
professional development.
9. July 2021.
In this special edition of TV Justice we bring you a testimony by Djulsa Velic, who survived the Srebrenica genocide. At the age of 49 she left Srebrenica in July 1995 alongside around 40,000 women, children and the elderly who were transferred in a convoy of buses and trucks from Potocari to Kladanj. During that summer more than 7,000 men and boys were killed in Srebrenica and its surroundings. Djulsa Velic’s story about surviving the genocide was recorded by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Bosnia and Herzegovina and Srebrenica Memorial Center as part of “The Lives behind the Fields of Death” project a month before her death.
8. July 2021.
For seven years now, employees of state institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina been able to report corruption and be granted the status of whistleblowers or protected denouncers of corruption. But so far, only a few of them have received such a status. One of them decided to publicly denounce corruption through an investigation published by BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina. For more than a year, BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina has monitored disciplinary action that was subsequently initiated against the whistleblower, although the law should have protected him. He was recently fired and disciplinary action is still being conducted against him. In this episode, you can see what whistleblowers have gone through after reporting corruption, why they are still not protected and how that can be changed.
4. June 2021.
A few weeks ago, a minor drew a Nazi swastika on an obituary notice for a Jewish man that had been affixed to a fence in Sarajevo. The incident came as a shock to residents of Sarajevo, but our research shows that for more than a decade, a movement has been openly promoting neo-Nazi ideology and anti-Semitism in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Federation entity.
7. May 2021.
The case against Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, former heads of Serbia's State Security Service who are charged with, among other things, the murders of six Srebrenica residents in Trnovo in July 1995, is the latest in which judges from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia to determine the responsibility of the neighboring state for war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.
9. April 2021.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and other countries in the region there are several groups whose members have previous convictions or publicly repeat right-wing sentiments while being involved in humanitarian work. On their social media pages, they claim they are helping the most vulnerable in society. However, the fact that in the past they have frequently promoted right-wing symbols or pro-Russian stances makes them different from other humanitarian organisations. The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network has investigated the ways in which these groups use humanitarian work, their reasons for doing so and the potential consequences for local communities and the societies in which they are operating.
5. March 2021.
The coronavirus pandemic had a severe impact on the media sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with journalists losing their jobs and media houses suffering the cancellation of advertising contracts. But despite the virus and its consequences, some media outlets managed to publish stories that exposed serious malpractices this year, some of which resulted in indictments. Meanwhile the government offered financial support to selected media outlets, which experts claimed could compromise their journalistic standards.
5. February 2021.
This month we will be talking about Chetnik movements and how they hold gatherings at places where crimes were committed during the Bosnian war. You’ll get to know the names of the Chetnik ‘dukes’ who have been accused and convicted of war crimes, and how Chetnik volunteers went to fight in Ukraine.
17. December 2020.
An analysis of defamation proceedings before courts in Bosnia and Herzegovina over the past four years reveals that in more than 80 per cent of cases, lawsuits against journalists are being initiated by politicians and other public officials such as judges and prosecutors, and that verdicts are often delivered without adequate explanation and without complying with the standards of the European Court of Human Rights. Journalists and media experts warn that the increasing number of lawsuits without any proper basis is an attempt to intimidate reporters and discourage them from investigating.
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