{"id":"SIG-BIH-033","country":"BiH (RS)","excerpt":"ECNL Apr 2024: RS Ministry of Justice publishes revised foreign agent draft April 3 2024 — further negative changes from Sep 2023 first reading. No minimum threshold: even smallest foreign donation triggers \"agent\" label. HRHF: \"Using Russia's authoritarian playbook against civil society has become a wider regional trend\" — RS, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan same week.","date_text":"03/04/2024","actor_text":"RS Ministry of Justice","source_url":"https://ecnl.org/publications/republika-srpska-analysis-foreign-agent-law","campaign_id":"BIH-CAMP-004","incident_id":"BIH-033","observation":{"target":"Civil society sector; NGOs receiving foreign funding","case_id":"BIH-033","country":"BiH (RS)","signal_id":"SIG-BIH-033","harm_track":"Track 1 — Legal/Administrative","source_url":"https://ecnl.org/publications/republika-srpska-analysis-foreign-agent-law","campaign_id":"BIH-CAMP-004","source_type":"Official/Regulatory","tactic_code":"Legislative revision — strengthened foreign agent draft","target_type":"Sector","trigger_type":"TR-01: External Political Event","actor_primary":"RS Ministry of Justice","campaign_phase":"Phase 2: Media Execution","event_date_raw":"03/04/2024","channel_primary":"Official/Regulatory","date_confidence":"exact","confidence_notes":"Exact date April 3 2024 — ECNL confirms publication date. Regional coordination: Georgia same day, Kyrgyzstan April 2.","escalation_stage":"2","actor_type_primary":"Government Official","source_text_excerpt":"ECNL Apr 2024: RS Ministry of Justice publishes revised foreign agent draft April 3 2024 — further negative changes from Sep 2023 first reading. No minimum threshold: even smallest foreign donation triggers \"agent\" label. HRHF: \"Using Russia's authoritarian playbook against civil society has become a wider regional trend\" — RS, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan same week.","consequence_category":"Legal/Administrative","secondary_source_url":"","event_date_normalized":"2024-04-03","primary_narrative_code":"NF-01","primary_narrative_label":"Foreign Agent / Foreign Influence","secondary_narrative_code":"NF-09","institutional_consequence":"Strengthened draft; regional coordination documented","secondary_narrative_label":"Political Interference"},"response_id":null,"source_type":"Official/Regulatory","target_text":"Civil society sector; NGOs receiving foreign funding","date_confidence":"exact","normalized_date":"2024-04-03","confidence_notes":"Exact date April 3 2024 — ECNL confirms publication date. Regional coordination: Georgia same day, Kyrgyzstan April 2.","secondary_source_url":""}