Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina

On the request of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Bosnian prosecution office, officers of the State Agency for Investigation and Protection, SIPA, arrested one person in Sarajevo on Wednesday on suspicion of connection with foreign Islamic fighters in Syria and Iraq.

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has acquitted Milan Mandic and local TV station employees of charges of inciting hatred and intolerance in 2014, by allegedly calling the Srebrenica massacre 'God's justice'.

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina confirmed to BIRN on Monday that it has not extended custody for a Bosnian citizen linked to an alleged plan to attack Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic.

The European Court of Auditors said on Thursday that in comparison to projects in the field of rule of law, relatively small amounts of money had been allocated for financing projects in the field of freedom of the media, prosecutors' offices and the fight against organised crime and corruption.

Bosnia's state prosecution on Friday asked the state court, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, to detain Slobodan Pavlovic, the owner of Pavlovic Bank, for 30 days together with Petar Lazic, the former bank director, Ljiljana Garic, an employee in the department for credits and Blago Blagojevic, a former employee of Pavlovic's company Slobomir.

Bosnia's State Prosecution said the recently arrested politician Fahrudin Radoncic put pressure on Azra Saric - a witness in the trial of the alleged drugs baron Naser Kelmendi in Kosovo - so that she would give false testimony, which is why it has sought detention for him for one month.

Bosnia's prosecution has asked the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina to keep Fahrudin Radoncic, the businessman-leader of the Alliance for a Better Future of Bosnia and Herzegovina, SBBBiH, in detention for 30 days.

In a landmark ruling, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Tuesday jailed four citizens for taking in part in, or mobilizing and transporting groups to take part in, the fighting in Syria and Iraq.

Bosnian officials have renewed calls for the dismissal of Goran Zubac, director of the State Investigative and Protection Agency, SIPA, after the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in a first instance ruling sentenced him to a year's probation for neglecting his duties during the protests last February.

Bosnia's State Investigative and Protection Agency, SIPA, announced on Thursday that after a months-long criminal investigation it had arrested three persons suspected of giving and taking bribery which included a state judge.