Wednesday, 17 september 2025.
Local Justice – Zenica: Hard war crimes investigations
The war crimes investigation department in the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP) in Zenica-Doboj Canton currently have arround ten active investigations but they claim that work on them is ''extrimely...
Protection of Prisoners’ Rights
A newly founded association called, Help in Protecting Prisoners' Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, intends to supervise the respect of human rights in prisons in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Local Justice – Zenica: Former Detainees Call for Faster Processing of Crimes
The Association of Detainees from Zenica, consisting of about 400 members, expresses its dissatisfaction with the handling of war crimes, pointing out that “witnesses are ready, but criminals walk the...
Local Justice – Zenica: Anniversary of Death of First Civilian Victim of War
Mateja Juric, a two-year old girl from Zenica, was killed 19 years ago during combat between the Yugoslav National Army, JNA, and Territorial Defence, TO, of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Local Justice – Zenica: Establishment of Witness Support Network
Representatives of the OSCE Mission, judicial authorities and NGOs met in Zenica on Thursday to discuss the establishment of a support network for victims who testify as witnesses in war...
Local Justice: Anniversary of Murder of Civilians in Zenica
The 18th anniversary of the murder of civilians in Zenica will be marked in Tuesday, April 19. On that day in 1993 a grenade killed 17 people and wounded another...
BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina: Six years of intensive work
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN B&H) has launched a series of new projects in 2010, by which it intensified the work on informing the public about the...
Local Justice: Digitising Detainees’ Personal Records
A project by the Association of Detainees of Bosnia and Herzegovina for the digitisation of a database which lists the torture victims from detention camps, has been presented in Zenica.
Mustafa Bisic: ‘New Jail Won’t Solve Bosnia’s Prison Overflow’
Long-expected state-level facility meets highest European standards - but with only 300 places it won’t entirely ease the problem of crowded jails, Bosnia’s deputy justice minister warns.