21. May 2024.
The UN war crimes court rejected a request from former Bosnian Serb Army chief Ratko Mladic to grant him provisional release on humanitarian grounds or allow him to continue to serve his life sentence in Serbia.
City: Sarajevo
23. January 2024.
Nick Teunissen was so intrigued by a photograph of a young Bosnian who went missing during the Srebrenica genocide, he decided to write a book that would illuminate some of the real lives behind the headlines and casualty figures.
22. January 2024.
Flowers were laid in the Alipasino Polje neighbourhood of Sarajevo to mark the 30th anniversary of the deaths of six children who were killed by shells fired from Bosnian Serb Army positions as they were sledging in the winter snow.
10. November 2023.
Flowers were laid by family members and city officials to commemorate the deaths of nine people, including five children, in an artillery attack on the Otoka neighbourhood of Sarajevo in November 1993.
4. October 2023.
The absence of legal consequences, minimal accountability from social media platforms, and their reluctance to remove harmful content have made genocide denial and the glorification of war criminals a part of internet pop culture, according to Internet Governance Forum panel discussion in Sarajevo.
30. May 2023.
Former soldiers Senad Gadzo, Zaim Lalicic and Suljo Hebib were acquitted of wartime crimes including the violent abuse and murder of Serb civilian prisoners in Hrasnica near Sarajevo.
11. May 2023.
Senaid Memic, the former mayor of Ilidza municipality and Bosnia and Herzegovina’s current ambassador to Malaysia, was arrested on charges related to building permits for a hotel funded by a Saudi company.
4. May 2023.
The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Judicial and Prosecutorial Training Center of Bosnia’s Federation entity signed a Memorandum of Cooperation on developing an educational programme on genocide denial and hate narratives.
27. January 2023.
Husein Mujanovic’s sentence for abusing Serb civilian prisoners held in inhumane conditions in a Bosnian Army military prison in Hrasnica near Sarajevo in 1992 was reduced to four-and-a-half years on appeal.
30. December 2022.
The Bosnian prosecution charged former Croatian Defence Council fighter Robert Bresic with involvement in seizing and killing two Serb civilians, a father and son, in Maglaj during the war in 1992.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.