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.
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 streets freely.
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.
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 crimes cases in Zenica-Doboj Canton.
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 78, though no one has been tried or convicted for the attack.
Bosnia and Herzegovinas 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 war crimes trials, and thus achieved significant results in the sixth year of its existence
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.
Long-expected state-level facility meets highest European standards - but with only 300 places it wont entirely ease the problem of crowded jails, Bosnias deputy justice minister warns.