Court: Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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.
15 January 2015
The Bosnian constitutional court has put a stop to the releases of war crimes convicts whose verdicts are quashed because the wrong criminal code was used at their trials.
7 November 2014
The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has quashed a verdict under which Milorad Trbic was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the genocide in Srebrenica.
22 August 2014
Six Bosnian Serbs convicted of the genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in 1995 are appealing against their 20-year prison sentences, arguing that they are too harsh.
5 August 2014
Former Bosnian Army assistant commander Sefik Alic, convicted of abusing Croatian Serb prisoners of war, was freed on a technicality because the wrong criminal code was used at his trial.
10 July 2014
The Court of BiH discontinues the execution of the sentence against Suad Kapic after the Constitutional Court of BiH quashed a second instance verdict, under which he was sentenced to 17 years in prison for crimes in the Sanski Most area.
6 March 2014
Two Bosnian Serb brothers convicted of abusing Bosniak prisoners near Sarajevo in 1992 asked the appeals court for lower sentences because of the “absence of fatal consequences”.
14 February 2014
Former Commander of the Ozren Tactical Group with the Republika Srpska Army Novak Djukic was released from prison after the Bosnian Constitutional court revoked a verdict under which he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for crimes in Tuzla.
27 January 2014
The Court of the Bosnia and Herzegovina sentenced on Monday Mirko Pekez to 20 years of prison for crimes in Jajce area, applying the Criminal Code of the Former Yugoslavia.
24 January 2014
The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, BiH, accepts, due to the wrong application of law, an appeal filed by Novak Djukic who was sentenced to 25 years in prison for having committed a crime in Tuzlanska Kapija.
23 January 2014
The Defence of five indictees, who were released after the verdicts against them for assisting in the Srebrenica genocide was quashed, request the Court to reduce their sentence to between five and 15 years, while the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina requests maximal imprisonment sentences.
22 January 2014
The Defence of Petar Mitrovic, who was released from prison after his verdict for assistance in the commission of genocide in Srebrenica had been quashed, says that it would not be justifiable to sentence the indictee to a maximum imprisonment sentence.
17 January 2014
The retrial of Nikola Andrun, who was released from prison, where he was serving his sentence for crimes in Capljina, because the verdict against him was quashed, has begun before the Appellate Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
10 January 2014
In the week ahead, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina is due to pronounce first instance verdicts against seven indictees, who are charged with crimes in the areas of Kotor-Varos, Capljina and Stolac, as well as Prozor.
6 January 2014
Applying the Criminal Code of the former Yugoslavia, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina reduces sentence against Zrinko Pincic from nine to six years in prison for crimes in Konjic.