20. April 2021.
Former Bosnian Serb Army military policeman Goran Viskovic, who is already serving a prison sentence for crimes against humanity, was charged with participating in the killings of eight Bosniak civilian prisoners.
Detention Camps
16. March 2021.
A group of activists put up temporary memorial signs to mark former detention centres at schools, industrial buildings and a nightclub where prisoners were held during the Bosnian war in the 1990s.
12. March 2021.
The UN court has again rejected a plea for early release from prison for Goran Jelisic, a detention camp guard during the Bosnian war who once described himself as a ‘Serbian Adolf Hitler’.
11. March 2021.
Former prisoners in Bosnian Serb camps say Serbia’s media regulator should reprimand Happy TV over a show that belittled their suffering.
10. March 2021.
Mustafa Djelilovic, who was being retried for crimes against Serb and Croat civilian prisoners who were illegally held in detention camps in the Hadzici area of Bosnia during wartime, has died.
5. March 2021.
A Belgrade court ruled that the case of Husein Mujanovic, sentenced to ten years in prison for beating Serbs at a prison near Sarajevo in 1992, will have to go to a retrial.
4. March 2021.
The Bosnian court acquitted Edhem Godinjak, Medaris Saric and Mirko Bunoza of the killings and inhumane treatment of imprisoned Bosnian Serb civilians and soldiers in Trnovo near Sarajevo during the war.
26. February 2021.
Interpol has issued a ‘red notice’ asking for states worldwide to arrest Mladen Mitrovic, who is suspected of committing crimes against humanity against non-Serbs in the Prijedor area of Bosnia during wartime.
26. February 2021.
Mirsada Tursunovic, who was raped by a soldier at a detention camp during the Bosnian war, explains how it took 17 years to overcome her fear of being socially ostracised and give evidence against her attacker.
26. February 2021.
New research documents more than 600 detention camps, prisons or other jail facilities that operated during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina - many more than have been documented by court verdicts.
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