Transparency International Bosnia and Herzegovina (TI BiH) has published a “Manual for protecting the rights of journalists and activists after the recriminalization of defamation” intended for journalists and activists, which provides tools and guidelines for protecting their rights in...

Banja Luka, September 19, 2023 – Transparency International in Bosnia and Herzegovina (TI BiH) sent comments to all clubs of deputies in the National Assembly of the Republic of Srpska on the Draft Law on the Special Register and Publicity of the Work of Non-Profit Organizations, which, at the...

GENEVA (25 July 2023) – UN human rights experts* expressed alarm about the recent adoption of amendments to the criminal code in the Republika Srpska entity that re-criminalise defamation and risk to adversely impact freedom of expression in Bosnia and Herzegovina and contribute to a climate of...

The United Nations, the OSCE Mission, the Council of Europe and the EU Office in Bosnia and Herzegovina are dismayed that the Republika Srpska National Assembly today re-criminalized defamation. The United Nations, the OSCE Mission, the Council of Europe and the EU Office in Bosnia and Herzegovina...

Banja Luka – July 20, 2023 – Adopting the amendments to the Criminal Code, the authorities in Republika Srpska today entered the phase of open repression against its citizens and positioned itself among the worst authoritarian regimes in this part of the world. Transparency...

Banja Luka, July 18, 2023 – Media representatives, activists and citizens gathered this morning in protest at Trg Krajine and held a march to the National Assembly of the Republic of Srpska, where the MPs are today debating and voting on the introduction of defamation into the Criminal Code...

Transparency International in Bosnia and Herzegovina warns that the re-criminalization of defamation in the Republic of Srpska will have huge consequences for all citizens who could be prosecuted for spoken public words. If the National Assembly of the Republic of Srpska adopts the Proposal of the...

Banja Luka, May 26, 2023 – The authorities of the Republic of Srpska are trying to completely legalize this phenomenon with new amendments to the Law on Prevention of Conflict of Interest and enable public officials to be at the head of associations financed from the budget. Transparency...

Srdjan Blagovcanin, a senior representative of the Transparency International in Bosnia and Herzegovina, criticised the decision of authorities in Bosnia’s Republika Srpska entity to criminalize defamation and their announcement of a new law treating the work of non-profit organizations,...

Berlin, 8. mart 2023. – On Thursday 2 March, the Bosnia and Herzegovina entity Republika Srpska adopted draft amendments to the criminal code that would re-criminalise defamation. This is an alarming development that, if approved by the National Assembly, would endanger free speech and allow...

Dear All, We are addressing you with an initiative to review the Draft Law on Amendments to the Criminal Code of the Republic of Srpska regarding the application of the Rules for Drafting Laws and Other Regulations of the Republic of Srpska (“Official Gazette of the RS No. 24/2014). On the...