15. September 2021.
The Dutch advisor to Bosnia’s High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council, HJPC, says the proceedings conducted against the state court president and chief prosecutor highlight the system’s reluctance to impose serious penalties.
Work of Domestic Judicial Institutions
26. August 2021.
Years after the 1990s wars, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia have continued to slowly prosecute wartime crimes – but with increasing numbers of ageing suspects falling ill or dying, it’s likely that some cases will never see verdicts.
11. August 2021.
The disappearance of Bosnian Serb Army general Milomir Savcic, who is on trial for assisting the Srebrenica genocide, is the latest in a series of incidents in which war crimes suspects and convicts have escaped justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
11. August 2021.
There has been a further decline in the number of war crimes cases being completed and the number of new indictments has also fallen, said the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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.
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.
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