Work of Domestic Judicial Institutions Archives

Screenshot-2020-09-04-at-10.04.02-1280x719.png

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Constitutional Court is to rule on whether banning minors and people over 65 from leaving their homes because of the coronavirus pandemic breaches their civic rights.

BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina is launching a campaign entitled ‘Forgotten Victims’, aimed at highlighting the victims of war crimes for which no one has yet been convicted under final verdicts. BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina on Monday begins its ‘Forgotten Victims’ campaign, which intends to enable victims of unprosecuted war crimes and their families to speak […]

Half as many people have been charged with war crimes by the Bosnian state prosecution this year compared to 2018, causing war victims’ groups to warn that some perpetrators may never face justice. During the course of 2019 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 27 state prosecutors dealing with war crimes filed 17 indictments by December 29, […]

Bosniaks applauded the life sentence handed down in 2019 to Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic, but Serb politicians condemned it and analysts warned that each ethnic group still has its own version of the truth about the war.

Around 20 people indicted for 1990s wartime crimes in Bosnia have died over the past five years, causing the cases to be halted, while ten more cases are at a standstill because the defendants are ill.

BIRN has published an updated and improved version of its War Crimes Verdicts Map, an interactive tool that offers an overview of hundreds of court rulings on the crimes committed during the 1990s wars in the former Yugoslavia. The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network on Wednesday published its updated and improved War Crimes Verdicts Map, enabling […]

Work of Domestic Judicial Institutions

Bosnian Polling Station Abuses are ‘Mechanism for Vote Theft’

Episode 117: Bosnian Polling Station Abuses are ‘Mechanism for Vote Theft’

Episode 114: Coronavirus Safeguards Stop Large-Scale Bosnian War Trials Resuming

Coronavirus Safeguards Stop Large-Scale Bosnian War Trials Resuming

Bosnia’s Constitutional Court to Rule on Movement Restrictions

BIRN BiH Launches ‘Forgotten Victims’ Campaign

Bosnia Charges 50% Fewer War Crime Suspects in 2019

Radovan Karadzic’s Conviction Highlights Entrenched Divisions

Bosnian War Crime Cases Halted as Ageing Defendants Die

BIRN Launches Updated Map of Balkan War Crime Verdicts

Pratite nas