Share :

Download PDF :

Balkan Insight ( 14 April 2020)

Emina Dizdarevic and Nedim Dervisbegovic

Sarajevo

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Constitutional Court is to rule on whether banning minors and people over 65 from leaving their homes because of the coronavirus pandemic breaches their civic rights.

The Constitutional Court’s president, Zlatko Knezevic, told BIRN that the court is to make its ruling on April 22 on whether it is unconstitutional to bar under-18s and over-65s from leaving their homes as part of measures to tackle the coronavirus outbreak in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The court has received several appeals since the civil protection headquarters in the country’s Federation entity imposed the measure on March 20, Knezevic said.

Click for more