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Bosnia’s state-level prosecutor issued an arrest warrant on Wednesday for the Republika Srpska (RS) entity President Milorad Dodik and two other top Bosnian Serb officials for violating the country’s “constitutional order”. The Prosecutor’s Office issued an arrest warrant for RS President Dodik, Prime Minister Radovan Višković and President of the National Assembly of the RS [...]

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday sentenced Republika Srpska (RS) president Milorad Dodik to one year in prison, imposing a six-year ban on his political participation within the RS due to his frequent calls for Republika Srpska’s independence. The court convicted Dodik for failure to comply with the decisions of the High Representative [...]

Dr. Salman H. Abu-Sitta, a Palestinian academic, is renowned for his extensive work documenting Palestine’s land and people, as well as developing a practical return plan for Palestinian refugees. He founded the Palestine Land Society (PLS), accredited by the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP), and established [...]

The Pentagon announced Monday that the US has repatriated Guantánamo detainee Ridah Bin Saleh al-Yazidi to Tunisia after more than two decades in detention. Al-Yazidi, identified as ISN 038, was transferred to Tunisia after Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin informed Congress on January 31, 2024, 11 months prior, about the agreement reached for his repatriation. [...]

Bosnia’s Serb Regional Parliament ordered its representatives on Wednesday to boycott votes in joint state bodies to hinder the reforms needed for EU integration. The order was made in an emergency session to discuss the response to the ongoing trial of the president of the Republic of Srpska, Milorad Dodik, for refusing to annul a [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Tuesday that Bosnia violated the European Convention on Human Rights due to insufficient data protection laws with regard to legal professional privilege. The decision followed a lawyer’s complaint that his phone data had been indiscriminately collected and used in a criminal trial against him. The applicant, [...]

The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has temporarily suspended a new school curriculum in the Republika Srpska under which elementary school students would be taught about the “achievements” of convicted war criminals Ratko Mladić and Radovan Karadzic. A statement from the court Friday said that the court found: would have serious and irremediable detrimental [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) held on Tuesday that Switzerland’s expulsion of a national of Bosnia and Herzegovina violated the European Convention on Human Rights. The individual in question had been expelled and barred from Switzerland for five years after he was convicted of a drug-related offense. Switzerland was specifically accused of violating [...]

The UN General Assembly (UNGA) passed a resolution last week establishing a commemoration day for the 1995 killings of more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys in Srebrenica and to formally recognize the event as genocide. Proposed by Germany and Rwanda, two countries with a unique history dealing with genocide in the 20th century, and [...]

The UN General Assembly on Thursday adopted a resolution designating July 11 as the International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the Srebrenica Genocide in 1995. The resolution was adopted by a recorded vote of 84 in favor, 19 against, and 68 abstentions. It designates July 11 as the “International Day of Reflection and Commemoration [...]