SELAK: IT IS A SERIOUS PRECEDENT WHEN PROSECUTOR IS SUBJECTED TO DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS FOR RESPECTING LAW

BANJA LUKA, APRIL 30 /SRNA/ - When a prosecutor respects the law and represents an indictment confirmed by a court, and is then subjected to disciplinary proceedings, it is not justice but a serious precedent, Republika Srpska Justice Minister Goran Selak said regarding the initiation of proceedings before the Disciplinary Commission of the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of BiH against prosecutor Dragica Glušac.

"The Ministry of Justice of Republika Srpska will closely monitor the proceedings due to suspicions of bias, and it is confident that the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of BiH will act impartially and that ethnic affiliation will not influence the decision," Selak posted on X.

A disciplinary proceeding has begun before the Disciplinary Commission of the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council of BiH against prosecutor Dragica Glušac, in a case in which imam Muharem Štulanović was indicted for damaging the reputation of Republika Srpska and its peoples.

At the preparatory hearing, Aldijana Porča, deputy chief disciplinary judge, stated that Glušac acted in a case of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Republika Srpska based on an indictment for a criminal offence which, as she noted, had been “abolished by a decision of the Constitutional Court of BiH.”

Muharem Štulanović, who referred to Republika Srpska as a “genocidal creation,” was indicted in December 2023 for the criminal offence of damaging the reputation of Republika Srpska and its peoples.

The District Court in Banja Luka confirmed the indictment filed against Štulanović by the Republic Public Prosecutor’s Office on December 4, 2023.

According to the indictment, on January 13, 2023, Štulanović delivered a speech during a religious ceremony in a mosque within the complex of the Islamic Pedagogical Faculty in Bihać, in which he ridiculed, expressed contempt for, and grossly demeaned Republika Srpska, calling it a “genocidal creation.”