Tue Jan 11, 2022 – 11:46 am EST
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina (LifeSiteNews) — The government of Bosnia and Herzegovina has become the first and only in Europe to strike down the requirement of domestic COVID passports for entry to commercial establishments. Vaccination or recovery, as well as a recent negative test, is still necessary for most travelers to enter into the country.
Gript reported January 5 that COVID passports “were shot down” after President of the Bosnian Party (BOSS) and lawyer Mirnes Ajanović challenged them in a “constitutional and legal battle.”
According to BiH News, Ajanović used the country’s constitution and laws, and evidence that the vaccinated as well as the unvaccinated transmit COVID-19, to argue against the government’s COVID passport decree, aiming to stop “totalitarianism and discrimination” against Bosnian citizens.
It was announced on Twitter that Ajanović had won a lawsuit brought to the “Bosnian Supreme Court.” The Twitter user shared a video in which Ajanović declared victory after “fighting for the rights of citizens.” He concluded, “The fight continues, it’s still not over, we haven’t won the war.”
According to Gript, Ajanović “argued that the proposed introduction of COVID passports… would represent a form of discrimination against citizens and a violation of basic rights and freedoms, such as the right to freedom of movement, opinion, labour, assembly and expression, which he said must not
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