ISLAMOPHOBIA REPORT

ISLAMOPHOBIA IN Bosnia and Herzegovina
Press Council in B&H and Communications Regulatory Agency should be raised.
• Awareness of citizens and NGOs about filing complaints related to human rights
violations at the B&H Ombudsman’s office, Ministry for Human Rights and
Refugees and in regular courts should be raised.
• There should be a commitment to countering violent extremism, but not at the
expense of freedom of religion and not solely focusing on Islam or Muslims
CHRONOLOGY
January
• Bijeljina (Republika Srpska), offensive graffiti
• Bijeljina (Republika Srpska), mosque desecrated
March
• Višegrad (Republika Srpska), offensive language/hate speech
• Doboj (Republika Srpska), offensive language/hate speech
• An employee of a state company prohibited from performing the noon prayer in the
workplace during a break
May
• Višegrad (Republika Srpska), hand grenade found in the yard of a mosque
June
• Doboj (Republika Srpska), offensive language/hate speech, at iftar
• Zvornik (Republika Srpska), offensive language/hate speech, at prayer
• Tomislavgrad, offensive graffiti
• Bijeljina (Republika Srpska), desecrated cemetery and commemorative monument
July
• A petition against a public kindergarten teacher for wearing a headscarf in Srebrenica,
Republika Srpska
• Bijeljina (Republika Srpska), offensive language/hate speech, at prayer
• Bijeljina (Republika Srpska), offensive language/hate speech, at imam
• Kotor Varoš (Republika Srpska), Nermin Hanifić attacked with “four S” engraved
on his stomach.
• Vlasenica (Republika Srpska), a Bosniak returnee beaten up
• Čelić (in Federation of B&H, bordering with Republika Srpska), offensive graffiti
August
• Tomislavgrad, a gas released next to the mosque entrance door
October
• Prohibition of wearing religious symbols for all employees in judicial and prosecutorial
institutions by HJPC (High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council)
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