The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has accepted the complaint of Turkish national Fatih Keskin and annulled the decisions of the Service for Foreigner Affairs and the Ministry of Security of BiH ordering his deportation, Zurnal.info learns.
The decision of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina ordered the Service for Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Security to reconsider the case.
Richmond Park School Principal Fatih Keskin was arrested on December 3rd in Bihac, and after 20 years of residence in BiH, his residence permit was revoked with a reason that Keskin poses a threat to the public order and national security of BiH.
A hearing has been held on Thursday in the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the case of Professor Fatih Keskin.
Lawyer Nedim Ademovic, who represents the Turkish national and director of Richmond Park College in Bihac, Keskin, told the media that this political persecution was agreed at the political level.
This citizen, national of the Republic of Turkey has resided in BiH for over 20 years, but was recently placed under surveillance by the local authorities at the Immigration Center in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s capital Sarajevo.
Ademovic said that the Court of BiH is required to hear Keskin on Thursday and to give him an opportunity to present his defense and that he expected that he would receive from the Court of BiH a minimum of information about why Keskin was actually declared a threat to BiH’s national security.
Ademovic explained that it was not possible to present adequate defense today, since they still do not have access to the documentation collected by OSA BiH, pointing out that he does not know whether such documentation exists, Klix.ba news portal reports.
He further explained that they presented evidence that Keskin resides lawfully in BiH, that he is a credible and family-friendly man who has never committed a misdemeanor, and in particular violated any criminal laws.
He pointed out that the case was pure political persecution and that the defense provided the Court of BiH with impunity records (as of December 2, 2019), which clearly shows that Keskin was not prosecuted in any way in Turkey.
“We also related to the arguments of BiH Minister of Security Dragan Mektic who said that his passport was allegedly canceled. We claim that this was a political persecution agreed at the political level and which should have resulted in the actual abduction of Keskin and deportation in an emergency procedure. Turkey where he would be imprisoned without any rights,” Ademovic said.
“The decision should be made by law within three days, I suppose we will get it on Monday. On what basis does the Court of BiH decide if there is no documentation?”, Ademovic concluded.
