{"id":"SIG-BIH-048","country":"BiH","excerpt":"Sarajevo Canton government introduces draft law on Public Order and Peace empowering police and courts to assess veracity of reporting and impose fines on purveyors of fake news (May 2023). FBiH canton-level mechanism operating in parallel to RS entity-level foreign agent and defamation laws — convergent restriction pressure from both entity directions.","date_text":"11/05/2023","actor_text":"Sarajevo Canton Government","source_url":"https://www.mapmf.org/alert/30294","campaign_id":"BIH-CAMP-005","incident_id":null,"observation":{"target":"Independent media; civil society","case_id":"","country":"BiH","signal_id":"SIG-BIH-048","harm_track":"Track 1 — Legal/Administrative","source_url":"https://www.mapmf.org/alert/30294","campaign_id":"BIH-CAMP-005","source_type":"Parliament","tactic_code":"TC-04","target_type":"Sector","enabler_type":"Legislative Infrastructure","trigger_type":"TR-06: Legislative Milestone","actor_primary":"Sarajevo Canton Government","actor_function":"Legislative Actor","campaign_phase":"Stage 6: Structural Enabler","enabler_status":"Unknown — draft stage as of May 2023; adoption status unverified","event_date_raw":"11/05/2023","channel_primary":"Parliament","date_confidence":"exact","campaigns_served":"BIH-CAMP-005","confidence_notes":"FBiH canton-level structural enabler — confirms restriction architecture operating simultaneously at RS entity level and FBiH canton level. Convergent pressure from both directions. Police assessing news veracity creates financial liability for journalism about public financial flows and donor-funded CSO work — directly adjacent to civic-finance restriction scope.","escalation_stage":"6","narrative_origin":"Domestic","narrative_density":"Medium","actor_type_primary":"Senior Official","source_text_excerpt":"Sarajevo Canton government introduces draft law on Public Order and Peace empowering police and courts to assess veracity of reporting and impose fines on purveyors of fake news (May 2023). FBiH canton-level mechanism operating in parallel to RS entity-level foreign agent and defamation laws — convergent restriction pressure from both entity directions.","consequence_category":"Legal/Administrative","secondary_source_url":"https://balkancsd.net/cpcd-publishes-2023-report-on-the-civil-society-environment-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina/","event_date_normalized":"2023-05-11","primary_narrative_code":"NF-05","primary_narrative_label":"Disinformation / Fake News","secondary_narrative_code":"","institutional_consequence":"Police empowered to assess news veracity; financial fines for fake news","secondary_narrative_label":""},"response_id":null,"source_type":"Parliament","target_text":"Independent media; civil society","date_confidence":"exact","normalized_date":"2023-05-11","confidence_notes":"FBiH canton-level structural enabler — confirms restriction architecture operating simultaneously at RS entity level and FBiH canton level. Convergent pressure from both directions. Police assessing news veracity creates financial liability for journalism about public financial flows and donor-funded CSO work — directly adjacent to civic-finance restriction scope.","secondary_source_url":"https://balkancsd.net/cpcd-publishes-2023-report-on-the-civil-society-environment-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina/"}