Cascade training on hate speech for the judiciary and police members of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina  gathered 14 participants, from Konjic, Mostar, Tuzla, Gradačac, Visoko, Sarajevo and Banovići. Training was based on presenting the standards of the Council of Europe set in the European Convention of Human Rights and the relevant case law of the European Court for Human Rights, as well as on the presenting of the domestic legal framework for the hate speech regulation, and discussion on the relevant domestic case law.

The judges, prosecutors and police representatives, had the opportunity to discuss  the cases selected by the trainers, to debate and understand the basic principles of freedom of expression, and at the same time to understand the rightful  limitations of the  freedom of expression, in particular when it comes to hate speech.

The trainers at the seminar were Council of Europe’s international expert Peter Noorlander, the lawyer from London and two local trainers Sanja Tadić Stojisavljević the public prosecutor of Republika Srpska and Amir Bajrić, the prosecutor from Zenica-Doboj Canton.

The event was organised in partnership with the Center for Judicial and Prosecutorial Training of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina..

This training was organised within the joint European Union/Council of Europe programme “Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey 2019-2022”, and its action on “Freedom of expression and freedom of the media in Bosnia and Herzegovina (JUFREX)”.