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

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.

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

The latest news and opinion about Bulgaria politics and society. Breaking news on the current Bulgaria’s political situation and governmental proceedings.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

The Bosnian court upheld the verdict sentencing seven wartime fighters and military policemen to a total of 30 years in prison for the unlawful detention, torture and murder of Serb civilian ...