Friday, 4 april 2025.
Bosnia Adopts Long-Delayed National War Crimes Strategy
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...
Bosnian Prosecution Criticised over War Crimes Indictments
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...
Bosnian Ministers Fail to Adopt National War Crimes Strategy
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...
Bosnia’s Updated War Crimes Strategy Languishes in Limbo
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...
Bosnia Hopes to Complete War Crimes Cases in 2023
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...
Bosnia to Step Up Dealing With Legacy of War, CoE Says
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.
Bosnia’s Top Court Has ‘Wasted’ Resources, Kreho Says
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.
Bosnian War Crimes Strategy Body Gets New Chief
Prosecutor Jadranka Lokmic-Misiraca has been named as the new president of the supervisory body for Bosnia and Herzegovina’s War Crimes Processing Strategy.
Bosnia to Miss War Crimes Investigations Deadline
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.