1. June 2017.
The prosecution’s failure to make complex war-crime cases a priority has wasted the resources of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the president of its criminal department, Minka Kreho, says.
Work of Domestic Judicial Institutions
22. May 2017.
The problem of war crimes prosecution is one of the biggest issues facing the courts in Bosnia, and more cases must be transferred from the state court to lower courts, a Sarajevo conference heard.
12. May 2017.
Twenty-four years have passed without any prosecutions for the ambush of the ‘Tuzla Convoy of Salvation’, when seven Bosniak truck drivers and several passengers were killed by Croat forces.
11. May 2017.
A year and a half after the adoption of the Justice Sector Reform Strategy, state institutions are just beginning to implement some of the steps, and international monitors doubt that the justice ministry can meet its deadlines.
9. May 2017.
A Serbian court confirmed charges against five Bosnian Serb ex-fighters accused of killing 20 passengers they abducted from a train in Strpci, Bosnia in 1993 - over two years after they were indicted.
8. May 2017.
A former soldier with international peacekeeping forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina has written to the Croatian authorities, appealing to them to extradite Bosnian Croat war crimes suspects to stand trial.
21. November 2016.
After Gordana Tadic became Bosnia and Herzegovina’s new acting chief prosecutor, controversy erupted as the prosecution was accused of bias over the arrests of ten Bosnian Croats on war crimes charges.
14. November 2016.
Legal experts said that all allegations by war crimes witnesses who claimed investigators put pressure on them to incriminate suspects must be properly probed and new measures put in place to prevent threats.
17. October 2016.
Disciplinary proceedings were launched against state prosecutor Miroslav Janjic because he failed to include five people’s deaths in a war crimes indictment, not because he indicted a Bosniak commander, prosecutors insisted.
30. August 2016.
A Bosnian Serb referendum challenging the authority of the country’s Constitutional Court represents “direct political pressure” aimed at undermining the state-level institution, its president told BIRN.
Sva prava zadržana BIRN BiH.