24. September 2020.
After a delay of two-and-a-half years, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Council of Ministers adopted a revised strategy for processing war crimes cases, intended to speed up work on clearing the country’s huge backlog.
National War Crimes Strategy
31. January 2020.
BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina is launching a campaign entitled ‘Forgotten Victims’, aimed at highlighting the victims of war crimes for which no one has yet been convicted under final verdicts. BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina on Monday begins its ‘Forgotten Victims’ campaign, which intends to enable victims of unprosecuted war crimes and their families to speak […]
10. October 2019.
A third of the war crimes indictments filed by the Bosnian state prosecution this year have been transferred to lower-level courts, sparking criticism of prosecutors for not focusing on more complex and important cases.
24. July 2019.
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Council of Ministers was criticised for again failing to consider a revised national strategy for prosecuting war crimes to ensure that the country’s huge backlog of cases is processed by 2023.
The Council of Ministers, the executive branch of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s state-level government, has been criticised for again failing on Tuesday evening to consider a revised national strategy to clear up the country’s large backlog of war crimes cases.
26. February 2019.
A year after Bosnia and Herzegovina’s revised draft strategy for war crimes processing was completed, it has not even been considered by the Council of Ministers, raising questions about when the country will finish prosecuting all its remaining cases.
23. February 2018.
Bosnia’s judicial overseer, the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council, has backed proposed changes to the national war crimes strategy to tackle delays in processing hundreds of cases and ensure they are completed within five years.
7. November 2017.
Bosnia and Herzegovina should step up the prosecution of wartime crimes and uphold the human rights of all civilian war victims, a new Council of Europe report says.
1. June 2017.
The prosecution’s failure to make complex war-crime cases a priority has wasted the resources of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the president of its criminal department, Minka Kreho, says.
12. April 2017.
Prosecutor Jadranka Lokmic-Misiraca has been named as the new president of the supervisory body for Bosnia and Herzegovina’s War Crimes Processing Strategy.
21. May 2015.
The Bosnian prosecution admitted that the most complex cases will not be solved by the end of this year the deadline set by the state-level war crimes strategy.
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