Protests were held in Sarajevo yesterday on the occasion of the International Day of the Fight Against Corruption, and demands were made for state judicial institutions.
Citizens, carrying banners, walked through the central streets and stopped in front of the Parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and the Office of the High Representative (OHR). Their requests to the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council (HJPC), the Prosecutor’s Office and the Court of BiHare:
Initiate disciplinary proceedings and dismiss all judges and prosecutors for “ineffective work and non-sanctioning of high-ranking politicians”;
Bring back foreign judges and prosecutors to “clean up the mess and inaction”;
To focus on the report of corruption among “high-ranking politicians and their satellites” and to conduct investigations with a team of prosecutors. Compile information of public interest on “opened and closed cases of high corruption and make them available on the website of the HJPC. Update the list at least once a month”;
Disciplinary proceedings, which are conducted against judges and prosecutors, should be conducted publicly in the presence of the applicant, except in cases where publicity could harm the “interests of justice”. A special team of foreign experts as consultants at the Office of the Disciplinary Prosecutor (UDT)should be formed, because “it is more than obvious that the disciplinary procedures, which should be corrective in relation to the work of judges and prosecutors, are completely ineffective and under the control of politicians”.
Demonstrators pointed out that there is much evidence of corruption and noted that systemic corruption rules in BiH, Klix.ba reports.
E.Dz.
