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’.

After a Turkish court ordered YouTube to shut down jailed journalist Fatih Altayli’s hugely popular channel, Altayli vowed to continue his broadcasts by whatever means he can.

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 ...

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.

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

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.

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 ...

Have you, or has someone you know, been the target of nonconsensual AI-generated explicit imagery? Or have you used AI apps that ‘nudify’ people in photographs? Tell us your story.

A man has been arrested in Montenegro over the unauthorised installation of a memorial to Pavle Djurisic, a 1940s Chetnik commander accused of masterminding massacres.

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

Fans throughout former Yugoslavia are mourning the passing of one of the most recognisable names of the Yugoslav music scene – whose singing career began in the 1950s.