Saturday, 4 october 2025.
Serbia Pays €53,950 to Acquitted Bosnian War Defendant
The Serbian authorities have paid compensation for the detention and legal costs of former policeman Ilija Jurisic, who was cleared of ordering an attack on a retreating Yugoslav People’s Army...
Bosnian Policeman’s Ten-Year Battle to Prove Innocence
After three-and-a-half years in custody in Serbia and a ten-year legal struggle against charges of ordering an attack on retreating Yugoslav troops in Tuzla in 1992, Bosnian ex-policeman Ilija Jurisic...
Bosnian Serbs “Were Breaking” Bosnia and Herzegovina
While cross-examining Defence’s expert in history Robert Donia, Ratko Mladic’s Defence says that the referendum on independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina in February 1992 was “unlawful and anti-constitutional”, because it...
Local justice – Jurisic: Retrial Full of Uncertainties
After the first instance verdict against Ilija Jurisic was abolished by a Belgrade appeals court, the Jurisic's Defence is awaiting the next step by the Serbian war crimes prosecutor with...
Belgrade Court Overturns Jurisic Verdict
The Appellate Court in Belgrade has overturned the first-instance verdict against former Bosnian security officer Ilija Jurisic and ordered a retrial in a controversial case that has strained relations between...
Unconvincing Reasons for Verdict
The Court in Belgrade has not established Ilija Jurisic's criminal responsibility beyond reasonable doubt and the reasons for the conviction, according to the Humanitarian Law Fund, are "unconvincing".
Serbian Probe into JNA Deaths Alarms Bosnians
Serbia’s move to investigate the May 1992 killings of JNA soldiers in Sarajevo raises as many questions as it answers.