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.
Wartime Sexual Violence
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.
16. December 2020.
The Hague war crimes court rejected a request to review the life sentence handed down to Bosnian Serb paramilitary unit leader Milan Lukic for committing crimes against humanity in the town of Visegrad.
3. December 2020.
The first-instance chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has sentenced Radovan Paprica and Slavko Ognjenovic to eight years in prison each for the crime of rape in Miljevina, near Foca, in 1992.
10. November 2020.
The Serbian court has so far not awarded any compensation during trials to survivors of wartime sexual violence - and one rape victim has waived her right to damages because she feared losing her anonymity if she filed a civil suit.
29. October 2020.
The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has rendered decisions rejecting appeals filed by Ibrahim Demirovic, who was sentenced to 13 years, and Habib Copelj, who was sentenced to five years in prison for crimes against Serb civilians in the Mostar area in 1993.
22. October 2020.
The Bosnian state court has asked Serbia to take over the prosecution of wartime Bosnian Serb soldier Novak Stjepanovic, who is accused of rape, sexual abuse and the killing of civilians in the Bratunac area in 1992.
21. October 2020.
Sixteen Bosniak men and one woman were seized by paramilitaries from the Bosnian Serb ‘Avengers’ unit and then abused and killed at a notorious hotel in Visegrad during the war in 1992.
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