The President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik arrived at the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina where a hearing will be held for him and Miloš Lukić, acting director of the Official Gazette of the RS.
We remind you that Dodik and Lukić are charged with the criminal offense of failure to execute the decisions of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina filed an indictment against Dodik and Lukić on August 11 and sent it to the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina for confirmation, but on August 18 the Court returned it to the Prosecutor’s Office for editing and amendment.
The indictment followed after the National Assembly of the RS adopted two disputed laws on June 27, which Dodik signed according to the regular legislative procedure and were published in the Official Gazette of the RS.
These are laws that state that the decisions of the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina (OHR) will no longer be published in this publication, and thus will not be respected in that Bosnia and Herzegovina. entity, as well as that the decisions of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina will no longer apply in the RS.
The High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Christian Schmidt, annulled both laws with his decisions of July 1.
Dodik’s defense submitted a request to move this trial to Banjaluka, but the Appellate Division of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina rejected this request.
