Bosnian Court Clears Local Security Chief of Wartime Rape
Bosnian state court upholds verdict acquitting Andrija Bjelosevic, a wartime security chief in the town of Derventa, of raping a Bosniak woman multiple times. KAYNAK: Balkan Insight
Kosovo Court Detains Former Serbian Interior Ministry Official for War Crimes
Pristina Basic Court hands down a detention order for Kosovo Serb Dejan Pelevic, suspected of war crimes in Skenderaj/Srbica that left 15 dead and 16 missing in 1999. KAYNAK: Balkan…
Implicated, Yet Untouched: Serbs Evade Justice for 1992 Bosnia War Crime
Evidence presented at multiple war crimes trials point to the deep involvement of two Bosnian Serb men in the persecution and murder of Bosniaks in the Kalinovik region of Bosnia…
Bosnian Serb Army Ex-Soldier Convicted of Wartime Rape
The state court convicted Boro Ivanovic of raping a Bosniak women several times in the town of Foca while he was a Bosnian Serb Army soldier during the war in…
Kosovo Convicts Two of War Crime Charges
Zoran Kostic and Dragan Milovic have been sentenced to 15 and seven years of imprisonment respectively after Pristina court found them guilty of war crimes committed in the region of…
Kosovo Court Finds Serb Not Guilty of War Crimes
Court finds Dragan Ristic not guilty of war crimes in 1999 in Gjakova/Djakovica, highlighting that the prosecution had proved that crimes were committed by Serbian forces, but not that Ristic…
As UN Considers Fate of Hague Court Archives, Kosovo Seeks Equal Access
As the United Nations looks at relocating the vast archives compiled by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, non-UN member Kosovo is pushing for better access in order…
Serb War Criminals Given Financial Grants by Bosnian Municipality
The city administration in Serb-led Prijedor approved the payment of financial assistance from the local budget to former Bosnian Serb Army soldiers Ilija Zoric and Ljubisa Cetic, who were both…
First Witnesses Testify in Obstruction of Justice Trial of Kosovo’s Thaci
In the first week of Hashim Thaci's trial for obstruction of justice, the prosecution alleged at the Hague court that the former Kosovo president attempted to influence witnesses during his…
Thaci Trial Verdict Will Decide Legacy of Kosovo Specialist Chambers
The upcoming verdict in the war crimes trial of former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and his co-accused will have enormous consequences for the defendants themselves, for the court, for Kosovo…