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Blind and visually challenged persons in the media mirror

Bosnian Serb leaders have threatened to pull out of state institutions and are pressing anew for independence from Bosnia and Herzegovina, threatening to throw the fragile, multiethnic country into political crisis once again.

Action: With narcis flower against breast cancer

Srdjan Dizdarevic (on right), president of Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in B&H, commenting seemingly forgotten case of Algerian group and expressing his concern on its possible outdate.

International judges handed down long prison sentences to five senior political, military and police officials in the government of the former Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic for their roles in the 1999 war in Kosovo. But the court acquitted Milan Milutinovic (on right), the wartime Serbian president, who had the highest rank of the men on trial but who was effectively a figurehead.

“Violence against women in the media mirror”

Recent cyber attacks on Peščanik’s website, disruptions of its broadcasts, and attempts to intimidate its editors, are described by prominent Serbian civil-rights lawyer and activist, Srdja Popovic (on right), in a call for proper investigation.

A Bosnian court has found an Imam (local Islamic priest) guilty of sexually abusing an underage girl and sentenced him to 18 months in prison, in a case that shocked Bosnia and stirred up tensions between local media organizations and the country’s influential Islamic Community. The family of the girl pressed charges against the Imam last year, accusing him of sexually molesting their underage daughter during religion classes.

A judge at the Hague tribunal granted permission last week to former Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic to be interviewed by a Dutch reporter from his cell. This is the first time that tribunal allows a defendant to give a media interview.