- country
- BiH
- date text
- 11/05/2023
- actor text
- Sarajevo Canton Government
- campaign id
- 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.
- date confidence
- exact
- 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.
- id
- SIG-BIH-048
- normalized date
- 2023-05-11
- observation
- country
- BiH
- actor function
- Legislative Actor
- actor primary
- Sarajevo Canton Government
- actor type primary
- Senior Official
- campaign id
- BIH-CAMP-005
- campaign phase
- Stage 6: Structural Enabler
- campaigns served
- BIH-CAMP-005
- channel primary
- Parliament
- 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.
- consequence category
- Legal/Administrative
- date confidence
- exact
- enabler status
- Unknown — draft stage as of May 2023; adoption status unverified
- enabler type
- Legislative Infrastructure
- escalation stage
- 6
- event date normalized
- 2023-05-11
- event date raw
- 11/05/2023
- harm track
- Track 1 — Legal/Administrative
- institutional consequence
- Police empowered to assess news veracity; financial fines for fake news
- narrative density
- Medium
- narrative origin
- Domestic
- primary narrative code
- NF-05
- primary narrative label
- Disinformation / Fake News
- secondary source url
- https://balkancsd.net/cpcd-publishes-2023-report-on-the-civil-society-environment-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina/
- signal id
- SIG-BIH-048
- 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.
- source type
- Parliament
- source url
- https://www.mapmf.org/alert/30294
- tactic code
- TC-04
- target
- Independent media; civil society
- target type
- Sector
- trigger type
- TR-06: Legislative Milestone
- secondary source url
- https://balkancsd.net/cpcd-publishes-2023-report-on-the-civil-society-environment-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina/
- source type
- Parliament
- source url
- https://www.mapmf.org/alert/30294
- target text
- Independent media; civil society
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