Bosnian state-level court rejected a request by the state prosecutor to restrict the movements of investigative reporter Natasa Miljanovic Zubac following her arrest.

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.

Catch up on the weekend’s most important developments with Balkan Insight’s digest of news from countries across the region.

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’.

A BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina documentary about the experiences of a wartime detention camp inmate whose family was killed while he was imprisoned was premiered in Sarajevo.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.