Emir Alisic, who was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison after admitting to organising a terrorist group in Syria, is appealing against having to pay court costs in his trial at the Bosnian state court.
The trial of Jahja Vukovic on charges of organising a terrorist group, going to Syria and taking part in the fighting there, opened at the Bosnian state court.
The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has jailed former ISIS fighter Jasmin Keserovic for joining a terrorist organisation – and for publicly calling for Muslims to murder Christians by any means available.
The Republic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Bosnia’s Republika Srpska entity has ended an investigation of Zijad Halilovic from the town of Lukavac, who police suspected of “incitement to acts of terrorism” because of statements he posted on Facebook.
Defendant Toni Basic entered a not-guilty plea to charges that he publicly incited terrorist acts, anti-Semitism, racism, nationalism and attacks on LGBT people on several occasions during 2020.
Since the fall of the Islamic State ‘caliphate’, piecemeal efforts by Balkan states to repatriate their nationals from refugee camps in Syria means more than 100 children are still living in squalid, unsafe conditions.
In closing arguments at the trial of Jasmin Keserovic, a Bosnian man accused of going to fight for so-called Islamic State in Syria, both the state prosecution and defence called a conviction.
The retrial of Aleksandar Radic, who is accused of firing a rocket-propelled grenade at a business centre in Banja Luka, is due to start soon after the original
verdict convicting him was quashed.
The Supreme Court in Bosnia’s Republika Srpska entity has yet to hold a session to discuss the prosecution’s appeal against the verdict acquitting Milan Macura of terrorism for allegedly appealing online for people to give him explosives.
A defence witness told the trial of Jasmin Keserovic, who is accused of joining the so-called Islamic State and publicly inciting acts of terrorism, at a hospital in Syria on several occasions.