15. January 2015.
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.
Work of Domestic Judicial Institutions
30. December 2014.
During 2014, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has sentenced 25 individuals for war crimes, and imposed 321 years worth of prison sentences.
29. December 2014.
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 condemnation from victims representatives and NGOs.
25. December 2014.
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.
10. December 2014.
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 18 years ago, he mentioned the names of several people claiming that they have participated in this crime along with him. Three of them were arrested late last week.
27. November 2014.
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 Balkans Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN of BiH.
11. November 2014.
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 States, the Ministry of Justice of Bosnia and Herzegovina has confirmed to BIRN-Justice Report.
6. November 2014.
No one has ever been charged with making a threat against witnesses even though the witnesses themselves complain about the threats that they are receiving and that this is often the reason the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina orders war crimes suspects into custody.
19. September 2014.
The Bosnian law states that only witnesses who clearly say that they will not be testifying can be fined or detained, while those witnesses who come to the courtroom, but refuse to answer questions, cannot be sanctioned.
2. October 2013.
Prosecutors at the cantonal or district levels file up to five times more war-crime indictments than their colleagues working with the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.