The adoption of the Draft Law on the Special Register and Publicity of the Work of Non-Profit Organizations is another confirmation in a series of confirmations that the regime in Republika Srpska (RS) has crossed all red lines on the way to an open dictatorship, said Srdjan Blagovcanin, president of the Board of Directors of Transparency International BiH (TI BiH).
“So, apart from the fact that the Draft Law on the Special Register and Publicity of the Work of Non-Profit Organizations is unconstitutional, discriminatory, in contradiction with elementary conventions on human rights, and regulates matter that is already regulated by regulations, its real purpose is to create legal prerequisites for hunting people and organizations that criticize the regime. The ultimate goal is to suppress all criticism and to create unsustainable conditions for non-inventors to operate on the territory of the RS,” warned Blagovcanin.
After the introduction of the criminalization of defamation, in order to limit the freedom of thought and speech, the Law on the Special Register of Non-Profit Organizations terminates the right to organize and associate and openly discriminates against citizens, and a law on the media is being prepared that will also terminate the remaining freedom of the media.
“The ruling regime of the RS is making a kind of gulag or concentration camp for its inhabitants, who are becoming more and more disenfranchised, even the protests of the trade unions due to the catastrophic economic situation are trying to be prevented and delegitimized. There are no longer any red lines that the ruling regime of the RS has not crossed,” Blagovcanin added.
He believes that at this moment it is important to call everyone to solidarity with the citizens of the RS.
“I am also referring to the coalition partners of the RS regime from the Coalition of the Three. They must no longer give legitimacy to the regime in the RS. Next, the International Community – there must be no cooperation with the regime until the minimum freedoms and human rights are returned to the citizens of RS. Everything else is the most direct complicity in the persecution of the citizens of RS,” concluded Blagovcanin.
