Milorad Dodik, president of Bosnia’s autonomous Serb Republic, was indicted in 2023.
Belgrade:
A Bosnia court docket on Wednesday sentenced Bosnian Serb separatist chief Milorad Dodik to 1 12 months in jail for defying orders of a world peace envoy.Â
Dodik, president of Bosnia’s autonomous Serb Republic, was indicted in 2023 for signing legal guidelines that suspended rulings by the constitutional court docket and by worldwide peace envoy Christian Schmidt.
Dodik has rejected the indictment as politically motivated. Beneath felony legislation, Bosnians pays a wonderful as a substitute of going through jail time if the sentence is not any multiple 12 months.Â
The decision may set off a disaster in Bosnia, which suffered a bloody ethnic battle the Nineties and has since been cut up into two autonomous areas: the Serb-dominated Serb Republic and the Federation shared by Croats and Bosniaks, linked through a central authorities.
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