Milorad Dodik, president of Bosnia’s autonomous Serb Republic, was indicted in 2023.
Belgrade:
A Bosnia courtroom on Wednesday sentenced Bosnian Serb separatist chief Milorad Dodik to 1 yr in jail for defying orders of a global peace envoy.
Dodik, president of Bosnia’s autonomous Serb Republic, was indicted in 2023 for signing legal guidelines that suspended rulings by the constitutional courtroom and by worldwide peace envoy Christian Schmidt.
Dodik has rejected the indictment as politically motivated. Below prison regulation, Bosnians pays a superb as a substitute of going through jail time if the sentence isn’t any multiple yr.
The decision might set off a disaster in Bosnia, which suffered a bloody ethnic battle the Nineties and has since been cut up into two autonomous areas: the Serb-dominated Serb Republic and the Federation shared by Croats and Bosniaks, linked through a central authorities.
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