Bosnian State Prosecutor's Office

The Bosnian State Prosecutor's Office is investigating a report from the State Border Police about the allegedly illegal issue of visas for thousands of citizens of Pakistan, Boris Grupesic, a spokesman for the Prosecutor's Office, confirmed to BIRN.

The head of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bruce Berton, told the launch in Sarajevo on Monday of a new report entitled 'War Crimes Management at the Prosecutor's Office in Bosnia and Herzegovina' that the conviction rate in war crime cases has been falling at an alarming speed and the most complex cases are not being adequately probed.

A Bosnian Serb political party, the National Democratic Movement, NDP, said on Monday that it will file a criminal lawsuit against the Bosniak member of the country's presidency, Bakir Izetbegovic, for circumventing state institutions to file a request for the revision of Bosnia's genocide lawsuit against Serbia at eth International Court of Justice.

Bosnia's State Investigation and Protection Agency, SIPA, arrested the eight men on Tuesday morning in Prijedor on war crimes charges.

The suspects are under investigation for the unlawful arrest and murder of some 120 Bosniak men and boys from the village of Miska Glava in the summer of 1992.

In a coordinated operation codenamed "Mask," police raided several locations in Bosnia and neighbouring Croatia on Thursday and arrested more than 20 people - including four policemen - believed to be involved in organized crime, as well as drug and weapons trafficking between those two countries.