This year, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has sentenced 38 persons for war crimes to a total of 640 years and six months in prison.

BIRN-Justice Report successfully ends its eighth year of work, despite the introduction of the anonymisation practice - which has still not been fully addressed by the judicial institutions in Bosnia...

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...

Almost all the Hague Tribunal’s prosecution evidence against Ratko Mladic has now been heard, with witnesses testifying that the former Bosnian Serb military chief must have known about war crimes.

Only 14 of about 100 people indicted for the gravest crimes are currently in the custody of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Former Yugoslav countries have spent almost 40 million euro of public money supporting war crimes suspects on trial at the Hague Tribunal, a BIRN investigation has revealed.

With the all-important 1992-5 war glaringly absent from the textbooks in Bosnia’s schools, pupils and teachers have to fill in the knowledge gap on their own.

Although they were sentenced for the gravest of crimes, including war crimes, the law allows convicts to become citizens with no previous convictions after they have served their imprisonment sentences.

A rare peek inside the ICTY detention unit reveals an unusual combination of ultra-high security prison and North Sea spa.

Defence attorneys of convicts sentenced for genocide and war crimes before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina announce that proceedings will be renewed in many more cases due to the...