Saturday, 24 may 2025.
Radovan Karadzic: Psychiatrist, Poet, Politician, Convict?
Radovan Karadzic has had various roles in his lifetime - psychiatrist, poet, political leader and fugitive - but this week he could be sentenced to spend the rest of it...
Karadzic Verdict: Legal Precedents and Unproven Allegations
The Hague Tribunal has legal precedents for some of the charges against Radovan Karadzic, but allegations that genocide was committed in 1992 and UN peacekeepers were taken hostage have never...
Soldier’s 12-Year Trial ‘Costing Bosnia €1.5 Million’
The war crime trial of former Bosnian Army serviceman Samir Bejtic, which has restarted four times and lasted over 12 years, could cost the state more than 1.5 million euros,...
Analysis – Avdovic and Vintila: Former Guard and Cook Accused of War Crimes
During an evidence hearing at the trial of Ramiz Avdovic and Iulian Nicolae Vintila, the defense argued that evidence presented by the prosecution didn’t prove that the defendants are guilty...
No Good Candidates for Bosnian State Court, Six Positions Remain Empty
After three failed open calls for applications and nine months of waiting, the Bosnian High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council (HJPC) has yet to elect a new state level judge. According...
Candlelight Surgery: How Hospitals Survived Sarajevo’s Siege
Sarajevo hospital doctors and medical staff remember how they saved more than 50,000 people during the longest siege in modern history, despite shortages of power and medical supplies.
Deaths Spotlight Hague Tribunal’s Ageing Defendants
The death in custody of Bosnian Serb war criminal Zdravko Tolimir means that 12 defendants at the UN war crimes court in The Hague have now died while on trial...
Analysis – Verdict in Salcin Trial Upcoming, Defense Claims Case of Mistaken Identity
After a trial that has lasted more than two years, the Bosnian state court will hand down a verdict in the case of Dzevad Salcin, a former member of the...
A Decade of Success Stories at BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina
As the tenth year of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIRN BiH) comes to a close, the organization looks back on a year of reporting on...
Almost 500 Years of Imprisonment for War Crime Convicts in 2015
In 2015, the Bosnian state court sentenced 45 defendants to a total of 467.5 years in prison for wartime murder, rape, torture and other crimes, including the Srebrenica genocide.