City: Sarajevo Archives

Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic’s defence said he has serious health problems including a potential stroke and asked for his appeal against his conviction for genocide and other wartime crimes to be postponed. Ratko Mladic’s defence lawyers said on Monday that they have asked the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague […]

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.

Bosnia’s Strategy for Prevention and Combatting Terrorism, which expires this year, has not received nearly enough resources to succeed – and clear terrorism prevention systems have yet to be set up in all local communities, analysis by BIRN shows.

A commemoration was held in Sarajevo to mark the anniversary of the shelling of the Markale marketplace in February 1994, when 68 people were killed and 142 wounded.

As efforts continue to finally make Sarajevo landmine-free this year, Bosnia’s demining experts explain how they deal with facing death or injury every day – and why they dedicate their lives to such a dangerous job. It’s 16 minutes past midday on Christmas Eve, and Sead Vrana sends me a text on Viber, seeking to […]

Lawmakers in the upper house of the Bosnian parliament voted to reject a proposed legal change intended to make the denial of genocide and war crimes punishable by jail sentences. The House of Peoples, the upper house of the Bosnian parliament, voted on Thursday against changing the criminal code of Bosnia and Herzegovina to criminalise […]

Salko Hondo, a veteran photojournalist for Oslobodjenje, the Sarajevo-based newspaper that courageously kept on publishing throughout the three-and-a-half-year siege of the city, went on his final assignment on July 16, 1992. Hondo had been deployed to take pictures of people queueing for water near the marketplace in the Ciglane neighbourhood when a projectile exploded close […]

The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina has requested a two-month custody extension for Armen Dzelko and Emir Alisic, who are suspected of fighting in Syria, while their defense proposed measures of prohibition.

At a custody extension hearing for Muharem Dunic and Senad Kasupovic, who are suspected of fighting in Syria, the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina requested a two-month extension of custody, while the defense teams proposed house arrest instead.

The shelling of a tram full of passengers in January 1996 was one of the last major attacks of the siege of Sarajevo, after the peace deal ending the Bosnian war was signed, but the perpetrators have never been caught.

City: Sarajevo

Ratko Mladic Seeks Appeal Delay Over Health Problems

BIRN Launches ‘If You Were Here’ Missing Persons Campaign

Prevention Remains Biggest Challenge to Bosnia’s Anti-Terrorism Strategy

Bosnia Commemorates Victims of Sarajevo Market Massacre

For Bosnia’s Landmine Clearers, Hope is Stronger than Fear

Bosnian MPs Reject Legislation to Criminalise Genocide Denial

Last Despatches: Photographer Who Captured Life and Death in Sarajevo

Custody Extension Requested for Two More Returnees from Syria

Custody Extension Requested for “Last ISIL Warriors”

Blood and Broken Glass: Remembering the Sarajevo Tram Attack

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