Hate crimes are hampering reconciliation process in Bosnia and Herzegovina, warns an OSCE report.
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Macedonia’s Constitutional Court has refused to evaluate whether parliament’s decision last year not to prosecute four war crime cases was constitutional.
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The Serbian parliament will pass an amnesty law on Wednesday, aimed at easing the overcrowding in Serbian prisons.
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The Bosnian State Prosecution filed an indictment against Branko Vlaco charging him with the crime against humanity committed in the Sarajevo neighborhood of Vogosca in 1992.
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Bosnia’s police authorities have arrested two war crimes suspects in as many days, as judicial institutions are looking to speed up solving a backlog of cases.
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The trial of eight ex members of the Serbian special operations unit, charged with mutiny in 2001, has started after some delays as the defence tried to have the prosecutor and the entire Trial Chamber removed.
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The EU has urged Serbia to transfer control of the witness protection unit from the police to the Ministry of Justice, as the witnesses are often threatened by those responsible for their safety.
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The Serbian authorities are investigating the involvement of a Belgrade DJ in war crimes allegedly committed in Bosnia by paramilitaries known as Arkan's Tigers.
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Two Kosovo Serbs, who are suspected of having raped Kosovo Albanian women during the 1998-1999 war, have been placed under house arrest for a month.
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The absence of an agreement that would allow Bosnia and Croatia to transfer war crimes cases is hampering the work of the Bosnian local courts.
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The Bosnian State Court has entered a not guilty plea on behalf of a convicted war criminal charged with prison escape while serving his sentence, after he failed to turn up in the court.
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During his visit to Montenegro, Clint Williamson, head of the EULEX task force in charge of the Kosovo organ trafficking case, has called for regional cooperation in the investigation.
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Radovan Stankovic refused to appear before the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina to enter his plea on the indictment charging him with escaping from Foca prison, where he was serving a 20-year sentence for war crimes committed in the town in 1992.
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The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina ordered one month's custody for Milos Pantelic and Ljubomir Tasic, suspected of war crimes in Visegrad and Sokolac municipalities in 1992.
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Sasa Dunovic, former member of the Army of Republika Srpska charged with crimes in Kljuc, failed to appear at a plea hearing, having sent a message through his lawyer that he “does not trust the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina”.
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