30. December 2022.
The Bosnian prosecution charged 15 former guards with crimes against civilians and prisoners of war who were detained at the Military-Investigative Prison in Banja Luka, known as Mali Logor, from 1992 to 1995.
City: Banja Luka
23. June 2021.
In less than two years, the Banja Luka police has filed at least 160 charges against activists seeking justice in the Dragan Dragicevic case – which experts see this as open intimidation of free citizens by the Bosnian Serb authorities.
7. May 2021.
The Bosnian Serb authorities presented an award to Austrian Nobel Prize-winner Peter Handke, who has been accused of sympathising with Slobodan Milosevic and downplaying the Srebrenica genocide.
17. March 2021.
The Republic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity said it is still conducting an investigation into Zikrija Krkic for allegedly financing terrorism, after a Norwegian court jailed him for murder.
11. February 2021.
The retrial of Aleksandar Radic, who is accused of firing a rocket-propelled grenade at a business centre in Banja Luka, is due to start soon after the original
verdict convicting him was quashed.
9. February 2021.
The Supreme Court in Bosnia’s Republika Srpska entity has yet to hold a session to discuss the prosecution’s appeal against the verdict acquitting Milan Macura of terrorism for allegedly appealing online for people to give him explosives.
26. June 2020.
Planned sculpture of the Nobel prize-winner – known for his strongly pro-Serbian views and denial of the Srebrenica genocide – becomes the latest source of discord in the divided country.
19. May 2020.
More than ten streets, squares, parks and public buildings in Bosnia and Herzegovina have been dedicated to war crime convicts and defendants like Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, research by BIRN has found.
28. January 2019.
Bosnia asked Sweden to take over the case against Serb ex-soldier Sinisa Milojcic, who is accused of rape and other wartime crimes, but Swedish law says he can’t be prosecuted now because he was under 21 at the time of the offence.
25. September 2018.
Genocide and war crimes defendant Ratko Mladic has been asked to be the honorary president of the Organisation of Military Chiefs of the Bosnian Serb Army - a move likely to offend war victims.
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