Sinisa Spasic was given a 30-day detention by Pristina Basic Court after he was arrested on suspicion of raping and killing civilians during the Kosovo war.

Despite a Constitutional Court ruling, and after months of deadlock, Kosovo MPs failed to elect a speaker and constitute a new parliament again, as two candidates from the biggest party did not ...

The UN court in The Hague again rejected a plea for early release from prison from Goran Jelisic, a detention camp guard during the Bosnian war who once described himself as a ‘Serb Adolf Hitler’.

The state court accepted a plea from Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, who was sentenced to a year in prison and given a six-year ban on holding political office, to convert his jail term to a fine ...

France’s top constitutional court has blocked the reintroduction of a toxic pesticide. Should it be banned in Europe?

Court orders a month's detention for Ramadan Morina, who is suspected of taking part in massacre of 34 Kosovo Albanians in Burim in 1999 alongside Serbian forces.

The US State Department’s annual human rights report said Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik undermined Bosnia and Herzegovina’s constitutional order while Bosnian Serb leaders used ...

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Serbia has done little to implement European standards in handling cases of sexual violence against women, meaning survivors who report their abusers face a long and often humiliating path to ...

Recent cases of Czech female journalists facing aggressive defamation campaigns for doing their job highlight persistent problems in a milieu still steeped in daily misogyny and sexualisation.

Ahead of the 30th anniversary of the military operation, a study by research group Documenta lists 2,353 victims – mostly Serbs – and calls for 'mutual recognition' of the suffering on both ...

Violent extremism in the region is not only powered by ethnic tensions but by complex financial networks – which authorities are doing little to disrupt.