{"id":"SIG-BIH-024","country":"BiH (RS)","excerpt":"Constitutional Court of BiH strikes down the Foreign Agents Law (Decision U-6/25, May 2025), finding it inconsistent with the BiH Constitution and Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Court rules that 'agents of foreign influence' label and vague restrictions on political activity are not necessary in a democratic society. RS Constitutional Court confirms annulment on January 28, 2026, halting its own review as the law had already ceased to apply. Law fully annulled — first doc","date_text":"May 2025 / Jan 2026","actor_text":"BiH Constitutional Court","source_url":"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/02/bosnia-and-herzegovina-bill-registering-ngos-will-increase-government","campaign_id":"BIH-CAMP-004","incident_id":null,"observation":{"target":"All foreign-funded CSOs in RS","case_id":"BIH-024","country":"BiH (RS)","signal_id":"SIG-BIH-024","harm_track":"Track 1 — Legal/Administrative","source_url":"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/02/bosnia-and-herzegovina-bill-registering-ngos-will-increase-government","campaign_id":"BIH-CAMP-004","source_type":"Judiciary","tactic_code":"International Accountability Mechanism","target_type":"Sector","trigger_type":"TR-07: Judicial Event","actor_primary":"BiH Constitutional Court","campaign_phase":"Counter-narrative","event_date_raw":"May 2025 / Jan 2026","channel_primary":"Judiciary","date_confidence":"approx","confidence_notes":"Direct sequel to BIH-023 (enactment) and BIH-015 (original proposal). First case in database documenting Track 1 restriction successfully reversed through constitutional challenge. Court explicitly rejected the NF-01 legal frame — analytically significant for counter-narrative architecture.","escalation_stage":"99","actor_type_primary":"Judiciary","source_text_excerpt":"Constitutional Court of BiH strikes down the Foreign Agents Law (Decision U-6/25, May 2025), finding it inconsistent with the BiH Constitution and Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Court rules that 'agents of foreign influence' label and vague restrictions on political activity are not necessary in a democratic society. RS Constitutional Court confirms annulment on January 28, 2026, halting its own review as the law had already ceased to apply. Law fully annulled — first doc","consequence_category":"Legal/Administrative","secondary_source_url":"https://balkancsd.net/urgent-call-to-action-bcsdns-2024-monitoring-matrix-report-reveals-alarming-shrinkage-of-civic-space-in-wb-and-turkiye/","event_date_normalized":"2025-05-01","primary_narrative_code":"NF-01","primary_narrative_label":"Foreign Agent / Foreign Influence","secondary_narrative_code":"","institutional_consequence":"Legislation annulled; International response","secondary_narrative_label":""},"response_id":"BIH-024","source_type":"Judiciary","target_text":"All foreign-funded CSOs in RS","date_confidence":"approx","normalized_date":"2025-05-01","confidence_notes":"Direct sequel to BIH-023 (enactment) and BIH-015 (original proposal). First case in database documenting Track 1 restriction successfully reversed through constitutional challenge. Court explicitly rejected the NF-01 legal frame — analytically significant for counter-narrative architecture.","secondary_source_url":"https://balkancsd.net/urgent-call-to-action-bcsdns-2024-monitoring-matrix-report-reveals-alarming-shrinkage-of-civic-space-in-wb-and-turkiye/"}