6. July 2023.
The state court upheld the acquittal of Djordje Ristanic, head of the Serb wartime leadership in Brcko in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina, clearing him of involvement in persecuting Bosniaks and Croats in 1992.
City: Brcko District
27. September 2022.
Djordje Ristanic, head of the Serb wartime leadership in Brcko in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina, was cleared of participation in a joint criminal enterprise to persecute Bosniaks and Croats.
18. March 2022.
A Serbian court sentenced Osman Osmanovic to five years in prison for abusing civilians and prisoners of war at the Rasadnik detention camp near Brcko in Bosnia in 1992.
4. October 2021.
A former inmate of a prison in the Brcko area of Bosnia in 1992 told the trial of an ex-soldier accusing of assaulting detainees that he did not see any of his fellow inmates being beaten or tortured.
16. August 2021.
Bosnian prosecutors charged three ex-policemen with murders, sexual abuse and rapes in the Brcko area in 1992, including Ranko Cesic, who has already been convicted of other wartime crimes by the Hague Tribunal.
12. March 2021.
The UN court has again rejected a plea for early release from prison for Goran Jelisic, a detention camp guard during the Bosnian war who once described himself as a ‘Serbian Adolf Hitler’.
7. October 2020.
Police arrested Ivan Djuric, who is suspected of committing crimes against humanity including murder against Bosniak, Croat and ethnic Albanian prisoners who were illegally detained in the town of Brcko in 1992.
4. September 2020.
Political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina surreptitiously swap seats on the committees that oversee polling stations, and although it’s not illegal, it allows them to influence the vote count on election day to their own advantage.
4. September 2020.
Political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina surreptitiously swap seats on the committees that oversee polling stations, allowing them to influence the vote count on election day to their own advantage – and it’s not illegal.
1. July 2020.
A former inmate’s daughter testified that ex-soldier Osman Osmanovic, who is accused of war crimes against prisoners, was a supervisor at a detention camp in the Brcko area of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.