20. January 2021.
The state court refused to confirm an indictment charging former brigade commander Radomir Nedic and former battalion commander Ratko Djurkovic with crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Ugljevik municipality in 1992.
Work of Domestic Judicial Institutions
8. January 2021.
A ceremony will be held in the village of Buhine Kuce, near Vitez in Bosnia and Herzegovina, to commemorate 26 people, including eight children, who were murdered in 1994 but whose killers have never faced trial.
16. November 2020.
Freed war criminal Fikret Abdic has been re-elected as the mayor of the Velika Kladusa municipality, according to preliminary results from the weekend’s local elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
21. October 2020.
Some war crimes trials in Bosnia and Herzegovina can last for five years or more, delaying justice even longer for victims of a conflict that ended more than two decades ago.
24. September 2020.
After a delay of two-and-a-half years, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Council of Ministers adopted a revised strategy for processing war crimes cases, intended to speed up work on clearing the country’s huge backlog.
22. September 2020.
The Bosnian authorities will take legal action after the Bosnian Serb public broadcaster’s website and other media outlets revealed the name of a protected witness in a Srebrenica genocide trial.
4. September 2020.
Political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina surreptitiously swap seats on the committees that oversee polling stations, and although it’s not illegal, it allows them to influence the vote count on election day to their own advantage.
4. September 2020.
Political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina surreptitiously swap seats on the committees that oversee polling stations, allowing them to influence the vote count on election day to their own advantage – and it’s not illegal.
5. June 2020.
Trials with large numbers of defendants cannot resume because of the problem of safe social distancing at the Bosnian state court, which will further slow the process of dealing with the country’s huge backlog of war crimes cases.
5. June 2020.
Trials with large numbers of defendants cannot resume because of the problem of safe social distancing at the Bosnian state court, which will further slow the process of dealing with the country’s huge backlog of war crimes cases.
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