22. December 2020.
At the trial of Emir Alisic, who is accused of terrorism for going to join paramilitary groups in Syria, a witness who was also in Syria claimed that she knew the defendant there and that he possessed weapons.
Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina
21. December 2020.
The prosecution called on the Bosnian court to increase former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Sasa Curcic’s five-year sentence for raping a Bosniak woman during the war in 1992 in the Foca area.
17. December 2020.
The verdict convicting Enver Buza, the wartime commander of a Bosnian Army battalion, of failing to discipline his troops for the 1993 killing of 27 Croat civilians in the village of Uzdol, was quashed and a retrial ordered.
16. December 2020.
A witness said she moved from Bosnia and Herzegovina to Islamic State-controlled territory in Syria in 2013 to be able to practice her religion in the way she wanted.
14. December 2020.
The trial of Milarem Berbic, a Bosnian accused of going to fight in Syria, was postponed after the defendant went on hunger strike over alleged poor conditions in detention.
9. December 2020.
Former Bosnian Army Third Corps commander Sakib Mahmuljin, who is on trial for failing to stop Islamic volunteer fighters torturing and killing Serb prisoners, said he was not guilty of the crime.
7. December 2020.
Former Bosnian Serb soldier Sretko Pavic, who was convicted of killing of five members of a Bosniak family in a village near Prijedor in 1992, failed to appear to start serving his sentence.
3. December 2020.
The first-instance chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has sentenced Radovan Paprica and Slavko Ognjenovic to eight years in prison each for the crime of rape in Miljevina, near Foca, in 1992.
19. November 2020.
The state prosecution requested an extended custody remand for Jahja Vukovic,who is suspected of organising a terrorist group and going to fight in Syria,arguing that he was living in Germany, not at his address in Bosnia and Herzegovina, when he travelled to the Middle East.
18. November 2020.
Novak Djukic, who has already been convicted in Bosnia of the 1995 Tuzla massacre, needs further psychiatric treatment and is not well enough to participate in his trial in Serbia until September next year, medical experts said.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.