17-09-2016 18:58 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Bosnian court bans planned national day vote

By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnia's top court upheld a ban on a "discriminatory" national holiday in the country's autonomous Serb Republic, setting the regional government on a collision course with the deeply divided country's central authorities in Sarajevo. The Constitutional Court ruled that January 9, the date on which Statehood Day is held, discriminated against the region's Muslims Bosniaks and Catholic Croats since it coincides with a Serbian Orthodox Christian holiday. Ja
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