Foca, Bosnia and Herzegovina News

The Appeals Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina sentenced Djordjislav Askraba to seven years of prison for crimes committed against Bosniaks in Kalinovik.

The passage of time, as well as the inexperience of the court system with these types of trials, is holding up most of the war crimes court cases in Montenegro.

A witness for the Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the trial of Jasko Gazdic, former member of the Army of Republika Srpska, claims a person who identified himself as "Jasko" raped her in August 1992.

A former member of a Serb paramilitary unit Radovan Stankovic was arrested over the weekend in Bosnia and Herzegovina, more than four years after he escaped from prison in May 2007.

A Bosnian Serb war criminal, who has been sentenced to 20 years in prison but escaped from jail in 2007, has been arrested in eastern Bosnia, local media cited Bosnian police reports.