12. March 2021.
Nine months after Adem Kostjerevac was extradited from the US, the Bosnian court threw out charges against the former Bosnian Army military policeman who was accused of raping a Serb woman during the war in 1992.
Wartime Sexual Violence
26. February 2021.
Mirsada Tursunovic, who was raped by a soldier at a detention camp during the Bosnian war, explains how it took 17 years to overcome her fear of being socially ostracised and give evidence against her attacker.
16. February 2021.
The defence of former Bosnian Army military policeman Adem Kostjerevac, who is accused of raping a Serb woman in the Zvornik area during the war in 1992, called on the court to quash the charges or acquit him.
12. February 2021.
The Bosnian court upheld a verdict sentencing former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Sasa Curcic to five years in prison for raping a Bosniak woman in the town of Foca in 1992.
2. February 2021.
The Bosnian Constitutional Court rejected an appeal from ex-soldiers Momir and Petar Tasic against their convictions for forcible disappearances and rape in the Visegrad area in June 1992.
22. January 2021.
Wartime fighter Senad Dzananovic’s lawyer said he should be acquitted of unlawfully detaining, raping and killing Serbs in Sarajevo in 1992 during the siege of the city.
4. January 2021.
The UN court in The Hague has rejected a request for early release from former Bosnian Serb Army unit commander Dragoljub Kunarac, who was convicted of multiple rape and the enslavement of two women.
4. January 2021.
Research into verdicts handed down by the Hague war crime tribunal and domestic courts in the former Yugoslavia shows previously unresearched links between wartime sexual violence and trafficking - as well as highlighting that many perpetrators have gone unpunished.
23. December 2020.
Bosnia’s Constitutional Court rejected an appeal from ex-soldier Milorad Mrdja against the verdict sentencing him to seven years in prison for raping a minor and other wartime crimes against Bosniaks in the Sanski Most area.
21. December 2020.
The prosecution called on the Bosnian court to increase former Bosnian Serb Army soldier Sasa Curcic’s five-year sentence for raping a Bosniak woman during the war in 1992 in the Foca area.
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