Wednesday, 2 april 2025.
Bosnia Prison Camp Ex-Guards Face Trial for Torture, Killings
Bosnia’s state court confirmed the indictment of five former guards at the Trnopolje, Keraterm and Omarska wartime detention camps on charges that include torture, murder and allowing the rape of...
Serbia Cuts Bosnian Army Jail Chief’s Prisoner Abuse Sentence
Husein Mujanovic’s sentence for abusing Serb civilian prisoners held in inhumane conditions in a Bosnian Army military prison in Hrasnica near Sarajevo in 1992 was reduced to four-and-a-half years on...
Serbia Agrees to Prosecute Suspects in Two Bosnian War Cases
The Serbian judiciary has taken over the prosecution of Milorad Kotur, who is accused of involvement in killing over 50 Bosniaks and Croats, and Lazar Mutlak, who is charged with...
Bosnian Serb Detention Camp Guards Charged with Prisoner Abuse
The Bosnian prosecution charged 15 former guards with crimes against civilians and prisoners of war who were detained at the Military-Investigative Prison in Banja Luka, known as Mali Logor, from...
Bosnia Charges Ex-Guards with Detention Camp Crimes in Prijedor
Six former guards were charged with committing a crime against humanity against illegally-detained prisoners at the Trnopolje, Keraterm and Omarska camps in the Prijedor area during wartime.
Bosnia Convicts Ex-Policeman of Beating Up Wartime Detainee
Former reservist policeman Goran Govedarica was sentenced to one year in prison for committing a war crime by assaulting a prisoner in the town of Gacko, but was acquitted of...
Absent War Crime Suspects Pose Problem for Bosnia’s New Prosecutor
In 2022, the Bosnian prosecution charged 60 people with war crimes, although ten of them are outside the country so can’t be brought to trial – a problem that the...
Bosnia Indicts Serb Ex-Soldier for Illegally Detaining Civilians
Bosnian Serb Army ex-soldier Mile Stojanovic is charged with participating in the illegal detention of around 150 Bosniak civilians, two of whom died, in the Rajlovac area, near Sarajevo, in...
Bosnia Acquits Wartime Brcko Leader of Persecuting Non-Serbs
Djordje Ristanic, head of the Serb wartime leadership in Brcko in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina, was cleared of participation in a joint criminal enterprise to persecute Bosniaks and Croats.
Bosnia Charges Croat Ex-Military Policeman with Beatings, Rape
Former Croatian Defence Council, HVO military policeman Ante Pavic has been charged with committing war crimes against Serb civilians who were detained in Bosanski Brod in 1992.