Bosnia’s judicial overseer, the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council, must be reformed, experts argued after a report for the European Commission said the country’s judiciary was in crisis and unable...
The Steering Board of the BH Journalists Association has sent a strong letter of protest to Bosnia’s High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council, HJPC, after its Vice-President on social media likened...
A third of the war crimes indictments filed by the Bosnian state prosecution this year have been transferred to lower-level courts, sparking criticism of prosecutors for not focusing on more...
Defamation lawsuits against journalists are being increasingly used as a censorship tool in Bosnia, experts say, warning that judges’ lack of expertise on defamation laws is leading to bad verdicts.
Final convictions have been significantly lower in the past two years, and the Bosnian prosecution has not been investing invest time and resources in investigating the most complex cases, said...
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council has elected Gordana Tadic as the new chief state prosecutor, making her the first woman in the country’s history to hold the...
Experts and international organizations oppose the State Court’s call for laws to regulate media reporting on criminal cases – saying it will unjustifiably hinder the media’s work.
The Bosnian state court said that media reporting on criminal proceedings should be legally regulated because of what it described as unprofessional, unjust and prejudiced coverage, particularly of war crimes...