Alija Behmen (25 December 1940 – 1 August 2018) was a Bosnian politician who served as the 36th mayor of Sarajevo from 2009 to 2013.

He graduated in 1969 from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Sarajevo, where he later presented a doctoral dissertation in the field of modeling transport costs and their impact on the reproduction and development of the economy.

From March 2001 until February 2003, he served as Prime Minister of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina entity.

After a 3-month-process, the Supreme Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina ordered their release based on lack of evidence.

According to documents filed by the detainee's American lawyers in their U.S. federal court habeas action, Christopher Hoh, the then U.S. chargé d'affaires, had told then Behmen that the U.S. would cut all diplomatic relations if the men were not arrested.