- country
- BiH (RS)
- date text
- May 2025 / Jan 2026
- actor text
- BiH Constitutional Court
- campaign id
- BIH-CAMP-004
- 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.
- date confidence
- approx
- 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
- id
- SIG-BIH-024
- normalized date
- 2025-05-01
- observation
- country
- BiH (RS)
- actor primary
- BiH Constitutional Court
- actor type primary
- Judiciary
- campaign id
- BIH-CAMP-004
- campaign phase
- Counter-narrative
- case id
- BIH-024
- channel primary
- Judiciary
- 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.
- consequence category
- Legal/Administrative
- date confidence
- approx
- escalation stage
- 99
- event date normalized
- 2025-05-01
- event date raw
- May 2025 / Jan 2026
- harm track
- Track 1 — Legal/Administrative
- institutional consequence
- Legislation annulled; International response
- primary narrative code
- NF-01
- primary narrative label
- Foreign Agent / Foreign Influence
- 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/
- signal id
- SIG-BIH-024
- 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
- source type
- Judiciary
- source url
- https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/02/bosnia-and-herzegovina-bill-registering-ngos-will-increase-government
- tactic code
- International Accountability Mechanism
- target
- All foreign-funded CSOs in RS
- target type
- Sector
- trigger type
- TR-07: Judicial Event
- response id
- BIH-024
- 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/
- source type
- Judiciary
- source url
- https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/02/bosnia-and-herzegovina-bill-registering-ngos-will-increase-government
- target text
- All foreign-funded CSOs in RS
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