Bosnia’s state-level Constitutional Court faces everyday pressure from political forces that don’t want to accept rulings that go against their ethnic base, its newly-appointed president Zlatko Knezevic told BIRN.
People wore white ribbons at events around Bosnia to commemorate the victims of crimes against non-Serbs in the north-eastern town of Prijedor in 1992 and all those who died during the rest of the war.
No explanation has been given why BIRN and other media outlets were denied accreditation to cover the rally held in Sarajevo by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Bosnian politician and businessman Fahrudin Radoncic was acquitted of obstructing justice by ordering witness-tampering in the trial of drug trafficker Naser Kelmendi in Kosovo.
Former Bosnian Serb Army Ratko Mladic’s request for contempt of court proceedings against medical staff at the UN Detention Unit, who he accuses of being responsible for his deteriorating health, was rejected.
Two UK-based professors have asked to present an analysis carried out with artificial intelligence-inspired software of Radovan Karadzic’s alleged intent to commit genocide in Srebrenica at the former Bosnian Serb leader’s appeals hearing in The Hague.
Appeals in the case against Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic, who was convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity under a first-instance verdict, will be heard in late April.
Bosnia’s judicial overseer, the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council, has backed proposed changes to the national war crimes strategy to tackle delays in processing hundreds of cases and ensure they are completed within five years.
The Hague Tribunal prosecution urged the UN court to reject Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic’s request to be released to Serbia to undergo medical treatment while his appeal against his conviction is being considered.