Amnesty International and the European Commission have expressed deep concern about what Amnesty called Serbia's ‘intimidating’ investigation into the finances of 57 NGO and individuals in Serbia – including BIRN.
A department of Serbia’s finance ministry tasked with tackling money laundering and terrorism financing has asked banks to hand over data about the transactions of dozens of individuals and NGOs known for their work on human rights, transparency and exposing corruption.
A Belgrade court sentenced Husein Mujanovic to ten years in jail for beating Serb prisoners at a Bosnian Army-run military prison in Hrasnica near Sarajevo during wartime.
Bosnian Serb Army ex-serviceman Milan Dragisic was found guilty of killing one civilian and trying to kill two others in Bosanski Petrovac during the Bosnian war in September 1992.
The Serbian war crimes prosecutor asked for a 15-year jail sentence for Husein Mujanovic, commander of a wartime prison in Hrasnica near Sarajevo, for the abuse of Bosnian Serb inmates.
The Serbian war crimes prosecution only issued three indictments in 2019, two of which were in cases transferred from Bosnia and Herzegovina, said a new report by the Humanitarian Law Centre. The Belgrade-based Humanitarian Law Centre NGO said in a report published on Wednesday that Serbian war crimes prosecutors are continuing to issue only a […]
Prosecutors in Belgrade charged Osman Osmanovic with committing war crimes against Serb civilians and prisoners of war held at the Rasadnik prison camp in Brcko in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992. The Serbian War Crimes Prosecution told BIRN that it has charged Osman Osmanovic with committing war crimes against civilians and prisoners of war at […]
BIRN has launched a new campaign entitled If You Were Here, which will tell the stories of family members of missing persons from the Balkan wars who are still waiting to discover the fate of their loved ones.
Serbian Radical Party members threw anti-war activists out of a building in Belgrade where a book by convicted war criminal Vojislav Seselj denying the Srebrenica genocide was being launched. Ultranationalist politician and war criminal Vojislav Seselj and members of his Serbian Radical Party on Wednesday evening physically forced anti-war activists out of a building in […]
An organisation run by a Russian army veteran who organised militias in eastern Ukraine and Crimea has given an award to a Serbian citizen who fought for the pro-Russian separatist cause. The Novorossiya Movement, an organisation run by notorious Russian army veteran Igor Strelkov, has given Serbian citizen Stevan Milosevic its ‘Protector of Novorossiya’ award […]