13. April 2021.
A report by a commission funded by the government of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity claimed that Serbs were subjected to ethnic cleansing in Sarajevo during the war and that crimes against them have been ignored.
City: Sarajevo
2. March 2020.
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 […]
14. February 2020.
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.
7. February 2020.
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.
5. February 2020.
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.
29. January 2020.
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 […]
23. January 2020.
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 […]
22. January 2020.
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 […]
16. January 2020.
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.
16. January 2020.
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.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.