14. August 2020.
The authorities in the Sarajevo Canton allocated around 1,370,000 euros from 2013 to 2020 to help defend mainly Bosniak ex-soldiers and police officers on trial for war crimes and to assist their families, BIRN has learned.
Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina
12. August 2020.
A Bosnian state prosecution expert told the trial of Senad Kasupovic, who is accused of joining paramilitary groups in Syria that he found it difficult to confirm whether the defendant is the person appearing in some of the videos introduced as evidence.
12. August 2020.
At the trial of Senad Kasupovic, a Bosnian man accused of going to fight in Syria, a state prosecution expert witness presented his findings about so-called Islamic State, saying its philosophy was that “it is not important how you lived before, but how you will die”.
12. August 2020.
Former Bosnian Serb reservist policeman Predrag Bastah, who is already been serving a sentence for war crimes, was charged with involvement in the killings of 37 Bosniak civilians near Vlasenica.
11. August 2020.
A prosecution witness testifying at the trial of Milarem Berbic, who is accused of terrorism and joining foreign paramilitary groups, said that the defendant travelled to Syria because of his daughter, who went there earlier with her husband and children.
11. August 2020.
Testifying at the trial of Jasmin Keserovic, who is accused of fighting for a terrorist organisation in Syria, a State Investigation and Protection Agency investigator said that three witnesses recognised the defendant from pictures in a photo album.
6. August 2020.
Three former Bosnian Croat fighters had their prison sentences reduced as they were convicted at a retrial of mistreating Bosniak prisoners at a military jail in Ljubuski during the war.
6. August 2020.
Local judicial institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina are often criticised for imposing low penalties for returnees from foreign battlefields. Several European countries began trying former fighters for terrorism and war crimes, increasing the sentences handed down to them. We have analysed what needs to be done by domestic judicial institutions to start prosecuting such crimes, what needs to be done to collect evidence and why experts consider that the Bosnian judiciary is ready.
6. August 2020.
After several European countries started trying former Islamic State fighters for war crimes as well as terrorism, increasing their potential sentences, BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina analysed what needs to be done if the domestic judiciary wants to follow suit.
29. July 2020.
A Bosnian state prosecution expert determined with high probability that the person appearing in a video call for murders was Jasmin Keserovic, who has been accused of fighting in Syria.
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