A French appeals court postponed its decision on the extradition of a former Bosnian Serb fighter suspected of participating in burning dozens of Bosniak civilians alive in Visegrad in 1992.
Recent decisions by the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina to close war crimes trials to the public in order to protect the private life of the indictees, has faced strong condemnation from victims representatives and NGOs.
During past ten months, the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina has indicted 63 people for war crimes, which is a record number in comparison to previous years.
Marking the 22th anniversary of the killing of Bosniaks in the Rogatica area, survivors express their dissatisfaction with the slow processing of those crimes by judicial institutions.
With several thousand signatures, as well as with other ways of supporting the campaign Stop Censorship on War Crimes, Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) succeeded in encouraging the authorities to admit that anonymisation cannot be applied to serious crimes, including war crimes.
Families of more than 50 Bosniak victims burned alive in Visegrad in 1992 are protesting against the potential destruction of the house where they died to make way for a new road.
Mirsada Beganovic-Zutic, Defence attorney of indictee Tasic, tells the Trial Chamber that, prior to the beginning of the hearing, Hasecic made a comment to witness Drago Gavrilovic, requesting the Court to remove Hasecic from the courtroom.
War crimes prosecutions in Bosnia are being hidden from the public by state court decisions denying media full access to information about trials and defendants, a new campaign says.
The Court and Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina must improve their outreach activities and be more open to victims and witnesses, a round table in Sarajevo concluded.