Thursday, 3 april 2025.
Bosnia Prosecution Publishes Confirmed Indictments, Acting on BIRN Petition
Following a request by BIRN BiH for more transparency in the justice system, the State Prosecution has started publishing redacted factual descriptions from confirmed indictments on its website.
Episode 100: Bosnian Judiciary Restricts Information on War Crime Cases
Bosnian courts and prosecution offices are restricting access to information on cases, making it harder for media to report on war crimes and corruption cases, although the law states that...
Bosnian Judiciary Restricts Information on War Crime Cases
Bosnian courts and prosecution offices are restricting access to information on cases, making it harder for media to report on war crimes and corruption cases, although the law states that...
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.
Make All War Crimes Trials Public, Bosnia Urged
All war crimes trials must be public, as well as the full names of the perpetrators, while the current practice of ‘anonymisation’ of suspects should end, a conference in Sarajevo...
Bosnia to Discard Controversial Anonymised Verdicts
Indictments and verdicts for war crimes and other grave offences should be made public so people can learn the truth about past atrocities, a working group of the Bosnian top...
Struggle for Public Justice and Truth
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...
Visibility of Justice Allows for Fair Trials
Vasvija Vidovic, a long-time lawyer with legal experience before domestic and international institutions, writes about the necessity for publicity of criminal proceedings and denies criticism that witnesses can be influenced...
Possibility of repeating the procedure before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina?
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...
Anonymisation no Longer Obligatory
The High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council, HJPC, concludes that courts and prosecutions are not obliged to anonymise their acts, but they should take care of the balance between public and...