28. April 2017.
In the past two years, six war crimes verdicts ordered compensation payments to victims but none of them received the money, so the state must intervene to help, legal experts said.
City: Sarajevo
27. April 2017.
The Bosnian Serb veterans’ minister said the commemoration of the 1992 killings of Yugoslav People’s Army troops will not be held in the capital this year because of “inadequate” security.
3. April 2017.
Prosecutors at the UN court objected to a request from Bosnian Serb ex-military commander Ratko Mladic for temporary release for medical treatment, arguing his health is stable and he might abscond.
28. March 2017.
Because of a lack of resources, Bosnians convicted of fighting for radical Islamist groups abroad are not helped to ‘deradicalise’ in jail or to reintegrate into society after their release.
22. March 2017.
Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic has asked for temporary release from detention in The Hague to go for treatment in Russia because of a “potentially life-threatening condition”.
21. March 2017.
Dragan Vikic, the wartime commander of interior ministry police units in Sarajevo, and Jusuf Pusina, a former Bosnian interior ministry official, went on trial over the killing of eight prisoners of war in 1992.
The trial of Dragan Vikic, Jusuf Pusina and two former policemen, Nermin Uzunovic and Mladen Covcic, who are all accused of crimes against prisoners of war, began at the state court in Sarajevo on Tuesday.
27. February 2017.
Dragan Vikic, the wartime commander of Bosnian interior ministry special police units in besieged Sarajevo, pleaded not guilty to involvement in the killing of eight Yugoslav People’s Army prisoners in 1992.
Dragan Vikic, the wartime commander of Bosnian interior ministry special police units, former interior ministry chief Jusuf Pusina, and two former policemen, Nermin Uzunovic and Mladen Covcic, all pleaded not guilty to war crimes at the state court in Sarajevo on Monday.
8. February 2017.
Despite the fact that some cases involve the organised exploitation of minors, the Bosnian authorities have failed to find a workable solution to the widespread problem of children begging on the streets.
1. February 2017.
A medical report rejected former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic’s claims that there were abnormally high levels of cancer among war crimes defendants held at the UN court’s detention centre.
16. January 2017.
The former director of the Health Insurance Institute of Sarajevo Canton faces a lawsuit after spending more than 20,000 euros on a conference in the US that never took place.
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