Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina

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11. March 2020.
Four former Bosnian Serb Army soldiers urged the state court in Sarajevo to acquit them of the murders of 28 Bosniak and Croat civilians in the village of Oborci in central Bosnia in September 1995. In closing statements at the Bosnian state court, lawyers for former soldiers Branko Cigoja, Zeljko Todic, Sasa Boskic and Milorad […]

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11. March 2020.
The prosecution urged the Bosnian state court to convict former Bosnian Serb Army battalion commander Srecko Acimovic of genocide for his role in the massacre of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995. In its closing statement on Wednesday, the prosecution called on the state court in Sarajevo to convict Srecko Acimovic of genocide and give […]

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10. March 2020.
Former Bosnian Serb fighter Milan Trisic, who was deported from the US for lying about his role in the war, will go on trial this month for committing crimes against humanity in the Bratunac area in 1992. Former Territorial Defence fighter Milan Trisic will go on trial on March 23 for crimes including murders, expulsions, […]

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10. March 2020.
The trial of Milomir Savcic, former commander of the 65th Motorized Protective Regiment of the Main Headquarters with the Bosnian Serb Army, VRS, who has been accused of Srebrenica genocide, is due to begin on March 23, as agreed at a status conference. In its written motion the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina indicated it planned to […]

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10. March 2020.
In the first case of its kind in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the state court acquitted Gavrilo Stevic of going to join a pro-Russian separatist unit in the conflict in eastern Ukraine. The state court in Sarajevo on Tuesday found Gavrilo Stevic not guilty of going to fight abroad, in the first case in Bosnia and […]

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3. March 2020.
Former Bosnian Serb fighter Dusan Spasojevic, who is on trial for raping a Bosniak woman during the war in May 1992, did not turn up for a court hearing and told his relatives that he has absconded. A hearing in the case against wartime Territorial Defence fighter Dusan Spasojevic at the Bosnian state court in […]

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27. February 2020.
Interpol has issued a ‘red notice’ calling for the arrest of Milojko Kovacevic, a former Bosnian Serb reservist policeman charged with crimes against humanity in the Visegrad area in 1992. A ‘red notice’ has been posted on Interpol’s online wanted list calling on countries worldwide to arrest Milojko Kovacevic, who is accused of the forcibly […]

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26. February 2020.
Former Territorial Defence force fighter Agan Ramic went on trial for hitting a minor in the village of Brdjani in the Konjic area in the summer of 1992. The trial of Agan Ramic, who is accused a mistreating a minor while serving with the municipal headquarters of the Bosnian Army’s Territorial Defence force in Konjic […]

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26. February 2020.
Ahead of the anniversary of the abduction and killing of 20 passengers from a train in Strpci in Bosnia in 1993, one victim’s son said he hopes that the bodies of those who are still missing will be discovered. Demir Licina, whose father Ilijaz was one of the passengers seized from a train by Bosnian […]