European Court of Human Rights Archives

As announced by the European Union's Delegation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the implications of a ruling by the European Court for Human Rights concerning appeals by Abduladhim Maktouf and Goran Damjanovic will be discussed within the structural dialogue.

The High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council, HJPC of Bosnia and Herzegovina is convinced that the issue of retroactive application of criminal laws following a decision by the European Court for Human Rights in favour of Abduladhim Maktouf and Goran Damjanovic has been solved.

Although the European Court of Human Rights had the ability to do so, it did not ordered to Bosnia and Herzegovina to repeat its proceedings in the case of Damjanovic and Maktouf, but it deemed sufficient to conclude that their rights were violated and to award them the litigation costs. Thus, Bosnia and Herzegovina has no obligation to repeat these two proceedings in order to implement the verdict of the European Court.

Lawyers for two convicted Bosnian war criminals said they will apply for a retrial after the European rights court ruled that they were tried under the wrong criminal code.

A decision rendered by the European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg by no means represents a revision of war-crimes verdicts pronounced by the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The European rights court ruled that Abduladhim Maktouf and Goran Damjanovic received higher sentences because a new Bosnian criminal code was used - a decision that could see dozens of verdicts overturned.

Representatives of the Association of Detainees of Tuzla Canton say that they are facing numerous problems relating to lawsuits for compensation of non-material damage, which they have filed with courts in Republika Srpska, RS, adding that their suits are being rejected on the grounds of statute of limitations.

Two convicted war criminals have asked the European Court of Human Rights to confirm that the retroactive use of the Bosnian Criminal Code in their trials violated their human rights.

Emina Kozljak sits at the edge of the couch in her living room. She ties her colourful scarf on her head and looks towards the table which is full of family photos in which everyone is smiling. She sighs heavily and nervously, squeezing a napkin in her hands and begins her story.

More than 10,000 persons are still missing after three and half years of war in BiH. Avdo Palic, a Bosnia and Herzegovina army officer from Zepa, who disappeared in 1995, is among them. His wife Esma Palic continues her search for the truth about her husband.

European Court of Human Rights

Strasbourg Court’s Decision to Be Discussed at Structural Dialogue

HJPC: Solving Retroactive Application of Laws

Possibility of repeating the procedure before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina?

Bosnian War Crimes Convicts Demand Retrial

No Question of Revision

Euro Court Rules Bosnia War Crimes Sentences Unjust

Local Justice Tuzla: Detainees Lawsuits Rejected

War Crime Convicts Take Their Case to Strasbourg

Life of Uncertainty for Families of the Missing

The love story of Avdo and Esma goes on

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