Sunday, 14 september 2025.
Bosnia Prosecution Claims War Crimes Success
The Bosnian prosecution marked its tenth anniversary of dealing with war crimes by insisting that it has indicted more suspects than ever in the past two years.
Discussion About Judicial Corruption Needed, Says State Court President
Following the arrest of state court judge Azra Miletic, the president of Bosnia’s state court Meddzida Kreso said this is the time to open a dialogue about corruption in the...
A programme of protection exists but rarely applied
If witnesses at war crimes trials or their family members are at risk, they can be accepted into a programme of protection, which allows them to change their identity, move...
Bosnia Blocks Controversial War Crimes Convict Releases
The Bosnian constitutional court has put a stop to the releases of war crimes convicts whose verdicts are quashed because the wrong criminal code was used at their trials.
Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina issued sentences in 2014 totalling 300 years in prison
During 2014, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has sentenced 25 individuals for war crimes, and imposed 321 years’ worth of prison sentences.
Public testimony or protecting indictees’ private life
Recent decisions by the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina to close war crimes trials to the public in order to protect the private life of the indictees, has faced strong...
Is Bosnia’s Prosecution ‘Tearing Up’ Investigations?
Legal experts and judicial officials have criticised the state prosecution for raising indictments for individual war crimes, reducing complex and wide-ranging attacks to a series of more minor incidents.
18 years ago: What Ranisavljevic said about the crime in Strpci
Nebojsa Ranisavljevic is the only one who was sentenced for the kidnapping and killing of passengers from a train in Strpci (municipality of Rudo). During the investigation, which was held...
Banja Luka Prosecution Accepts Guidelines
Journalists from Banja Luka are generally satisfied with the way they obtain information from judicial institutions in that town - it was said at an educational workshop organized by the...
Nine suspects for war crimes expected
In order to conduct further war crimes trials, extradition proceedings are currently ongoing for nine citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina who are currently residing in Europe, Australia and the United...