After Serbia, Hungary has also filed an appeal against the request to issue an Interpol red notice for the President of Republika Srpska (RS) Milorad Dodik, the Sarajevo-based portal Raport reported, citing unnamed sources.
The Sarajevo portal states that "it is not clear what the content of the complaint is", but it is assumed that Hungary claims that it is a "political case".
They recall that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, after the first-instance verdict of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina was pronounced against Dodik, said that it was a "witch hunt".
"The political witch hunt against President Milorad Dodik is a sad example of using the legal system as a weapon against a democratically elected leader. If we want to preserve stability in the Western Balkans, this is not the right path," Orban wrote at the time on the social network X.
Serbia previously sent a protest note to Interpol, and Interior Minister Ivica Dačić stated that this was done because Dodik, the President of the RS National Assembly, and Nenad Stevandić, for whom an international arrest warrant was also requested, are Serbian citizens.
Dačić referred to Article 3 of the Interpol Statute, according to which "any activity or intervention in cases that have a political, military, religious or racial background is strictly prohibited."
Last week, the Court of BiH sent a request to Interpol to issue an international arrest warrant for Dodik and Stevandić for "unavailability to justice", because they are avoiding appearing at the BiH Prosecutor's Office, where they have been summoned for questioning as suspects in an "attack on the constitutional order of BiH".
After the Court of First Instance of BiH sentenced Dodik to a year in prison and a six-year ban on political activity for failing to implement the High Representative's decisions, the RS parliament adopted several laws prohibiting the work of state judicial institutions and the Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) on the territory of that BiH entity.
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