- country
- BiH (RS)
- date text
- 26/02/2025
- actor text
- Court of BiH
- campaign id
- BIH-CAMP-004
- confidence notes
- Exact date February 26 2025 — conviction confirmed. One-day sequence documented. CIVICUS July 2025 primary source for conviction → law connection.
- date confidence
- exact
- excerpt
- Court of BiH convicts Dodik Feb 26 2025: one year prison, six-year office ban for defying OHR rulings. Next day (Feb 27): RS adopts foreign agents law under urgent procedure. CIVICUS: "adopted immediately after the conviction — apparently in retaliation." Officials: rejection would cause "collapse of constitutional order orchestrated by foreign-funded organizations."
- id
- SIG-BIH-035
- incident id
- BIH-035
- normalized date
- 2025-02-26
- observation
- country
- BiH (RS)
- actor primary
- Court of BiH
- actor type primary
- Government Official
- campaign id
- BIH-CAMP-004
- campaign phase
- Phase 1: Authorization
- case id
- BIH-035
- channel primary
- Official/Regulatory
- confidence notes
- Exact date February 26 2025 — conviction confirmed. One-day sequence documented. CIVICUS July 2025 primary source for conviction → law connection.
- consequence category
- Legal/Administrative; Social Trust Erosion
- date confidence
- exact
- escalation stage
- 1
- event date normalized
- 2025-02-26
- event date raw
- 26/02/2025
- harm track
- Both
- institutional consequence
- Dodik convicted; foreign agents law adopted next day; RS escalation of confrontation with state institutions
- primary narrative code
- NF-01
- primary narrative label
- Foreign Agent / Foreign Influence
- secondary narrative code
- NF-06
- secondary narrative label
- Destabilization Agent
- secondary source url
- https://cpj.org/2025/03/bosnian-serbs-adopt-foreign-agent-law-targeting-independent-media/
- signal id
- SIG-BIH-035
- source text excerpt
- Court of BiH convicts Dodik Feb 26 2025: one year prison, six-year office ban for defying OHR rulings. Next day (Feb 27): RS adopts foreign agents law under urgent procedure. CIVICUS: "adopted immediately after the conviction — apparently in retaliation." Officials: rejection would cause "collapse of constitutional order orchestrated by foreign-funded organizations."
- source type
- Official/Regulatory
- source url
- https://balkaninsight.com/2025/03/06/under-cover-of-controversy-bosnian-serbs-adopt-foreign-agents-law/bi/
- tactic code
- Conviction as political trigger for retaliatory legislation
- target
- Civil society; rule of law; OHR authority
- target type
- Sector
- trigger type
- TR-07: Judicial Event
- secondary source url
- https://cpj.org/2025/03/bosnian-serbs-adopt-foreign-agent-law-targeting-independent-media/
- source type
- Official/Regulatory
- source url
- https://balkaninsight.com/2025/03/06/under-cover-of-controversy-bosnian-serbs-adopt-foreign-agents-law/bi/
- target text
- Civil society; rule of law; OHR authority
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