13. January 2015.
The Brcko District Prosecution abolishes anonymisation of war crimes indictments after they have been confirmed.
Stop the Censorship
4. June 2014.
After more than two years the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BiH, has revised its Rulebook on accessing information held by that institution, abolishing the anonymisation of verdicts and other decisions.
5. March 2014.
The Bosnian State prosecution still does not allow journalists covering trials access to indictments, despite the fact that institutions have found that access to these documents is a great public interest.
30. December 2013.
With several thousand signatures, as well as with other ways of supporting the campaign Stop Censorship on War Crimes, Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) succeeded in encouraging the authorities to admit that anonymisation cannot be applied to serious crimes, including war crimes.
19. July 2013.
Although the European Court of Human Rights had the ability to do so, it did not ordered to Bosnia and Herzegovina to repeat its proceedings in the case of Damjanovic and Maktouf, but it deemed sufficient to conclude that their rights were violated and to award them the litigation costs. Thus, Bosnia and Herzegovina has no obligation to repeat these two proceedings in order to implement the verdict of the European Court.
29. June 2013.
Nearly 400 signatures were collected in Sarajevo over the course of two hours on the first day of signing of a petition within a campaign on Stop Censoring War-Crimes.
26. June 2013.
War crimes prosecutions in Bosnia are being hidden from the public by state court decisions denying media full access to information about trials and defendants, a new campaign says.
25. June 2013.
Courts and Prosecutors Offices in Bosnia have completely different stances on the availability of indictments and verdicts to the public.
30. May 2013.
Participants in a debate on changes and amendments to the Law on Free Access to Information of Bosnia and Herzegovina agree that most of the existing provisions should not be changed.
27. May 2013.
Journalists from Bosnia and Herzegovina have expressed outrage at the new Regulations on access to information within the Bosnian State Court, through which the media can only get ten minutes of footage of audio or video material from trials.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.