"We, the women of Bosnia and Herzegovina, have united to raise our voices and ask the decision-makers to change the legislation, to include femicide in the law and to apply the Istanbul Convention, which has been signed but is not being applied," Rakovic said at the Sarajevo demonstration.Īccording to data from the Agency for Gender Equality of Bosnia and Herzegovina, more than 60 women have been killed by their husbands since 2015. We want to scream that silence, so the cry would be as loud as possible."Įnisa Rakovic of the NGO Women's Voice stressed that women in Bosnia will no longer remain silent.
“We owe them at least that, and we also owe it to all women who are exposed to any risk of being killed. "We women must be loud and speak on behalf of all those murdered women,” said Selma Hadzihalilovic of the Women's Network of BiH. The nongovernmental organization Women's Network of BiH took part in the demonstration in Sarajevo, demanding action from the government.
The demonstrators also urged the government to harmonize criminal laws with the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence, known as the Istanbul Convention.
Police said the woman’s husband was found hanged on October 13 and cited suicide as the cause of his death.ĭozens of demonstrators, mostly women, turned out in Sarajevo, asking authorities to introduce femicide - defined as a hate crime against women motivated by the victim's gender and a sense of superiority - into legislation, making it a criminal offense. The demonstrations came amid outrage over the strangulation death of a 32-year-old woman on October 11, allegedly at the hands of her husband, in the town of Bihac in northwestern Bosnia. Women in Bosnia-Herzegovina held demonstrations on October 14 in Sarajevo, Banja Luka, and many other cities and towns to draw attention to femicide and call for the legislature to pass laws against it. The Moscow-based Memorial Human Rights Center has recognized dozens of Jehovah’s Witnesses who've been charged with or convicted of extremism as political prisoners. The Christian group is known for door-to-door preaching, close Bible study, rejecting military service, and not celebrating national and religious holidays or birthdays.Īccording to the group, dozens of Jehovah's Witnesses were either convicted of extremism or are being held in pretrial detention. The United States has condemned Russia's ongoing crackdown on Jehovah's Witnesses and other peaceful religious minorities.įor decades, the Jehovah's Witnesses have been viewed with suspicion in Russia, where the dominant Orthodox Church is championed by President Vladimir Putin. Since the faith was outlawed in Russia, many Jehovah's Witnesses have been imprisoned in Russia and Russian-annexed Crimea. Shmidt was tried separately and sentenced to six year in prison in late October last year. The case against Zhukov, Maladyka, Sakada, and a fourth believer, Ihor Shmidt, was launched in October 2020 after their homes were searched. They were also banned from publicly expressing their views and from publishing articles in media and on the Internet for seven years after finishing their prison sentences. The court also ruled that, after serving their prison terms, the three men will be placed under parole-like controls for one year. The Crimean Solidarity human rights group said on October 6 that the Nakhimov district court in the city of Sevastopol sentenced Yevhen Zhukov, Volodymyr Maladyka, and Volodymyr Sakada to six years in prison each after finding them guilty of organizing activities for the group, which was labeled as extremist and banned in Russia in 2017 but is legal in Ukraine. SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine - A Moscow-imposed court in the Russian-annexed Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula of Crimea has sentenced three Jehovah's Witnesses to prison terms amid an ongoing crackdown against the religious group.
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