26 December 2014
The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BiH, files an indictment against Milkan Gojkovic, charging him with crimes in the Sarajevo area in 1992.
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.
18 June 2014
Veselin Vlahovic, who waged a campaign of murder, rape and robbery against Bosniaks and Croats in Sarajevo in 1992, had his prison sentence reduced from 45 to 42 years.
22 May 2014
The trial of Ratko Mladic continued with testimony by Defence witness Branko Radan, who admitted that crimes were committed against Bosniaks and Croats in the Grbavica neighbourhood of Sarajevo, but denied that Serbian authorities deported them.
28 February 2014
The Bosnian prosecution asked for a longer jail term for Serb fighter Zoran Dragicevic, convicted of torturing, imprisoning, raping and stealing from people during the siege of Sarajevo.
5 February 2014
Veselin Vlahovic, alias ‘Batko’, has appealed against his lengthy sentence for a campaign of murder, rape, torture and robbery against Bosniaks and Croats in Sarajevo in 1992.
8 January 2014
Second instance verdicts pronounced by the State Court during the past year indicate that the State Prosecution has been partially successful in proving the gravest war-crimes accusations.
25 December 2013
Only 14 of about 100 people indicted for the gravest crimes are currently in the custody of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
17 December 2013
With the all-important 1992-5 war glaringly absent from the textbooks in Bosnia’s schools, pupils and teachers have to fill in the knowledge gap on their own.
14 November 2013
As more and more witnesses to the 1992-war war pass away, questions about the value of their testimony in war crimes trials are becoming more pressing.
30 October 2013
Former soldier Zoran Dragicevic, on trial for a series of alleged war crimes in the Bosnian capital, did not deport, jail or torture anyone, argued his lawyer.
19 July 2013
Although the European Court of Human Rights had the ability to do so, it did not ordered to Bosnia and Herzegovina to repeat its proceedings in the case of Damjanovic and Maktouf, but it deemed sufficient to conclude that their rights were violated and to award them the litigation costs. Thus, Bosnia and Herzegovina has no obligation to repeat these two proceedings in order to implement the verdict of the European Court.
27 June 2013
Ex-fighter Zoran Dragicevic, on trial for war crimes in Sarajevo in 1992, testified that he did not rape a Muslim woman but actually protected her from other men.
8 May 2013
Testifying at the trial for crimes in Sarajevo, a prosecution witness says another witness told her that she had been raped by indictee Zoran Dragicevic, known as Krompir.
3 April 2013
A witness at the trial of ex-fighter Zoran Dragicevic for war crimes in Sarajevo in 1992 testified that he and recently-convicted Veselin Vlahovic abducted and assaulted her brother.