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NGO
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The Sarajevo Open Centre reported two physical assaults, involving threats against three students after one disclosed her sexual orientation; and one case of physical assault resulting in serious injuries.

Bias Motivation
IGO
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The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina reported 24 incidents, including two physical assaults – one against an ethnic Bosniac man resulting in serious injury, and one against an ethnic Serb family – and three cases of threats against ethnic Bosniacs or Serbs.

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The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina reported two anti-Roma incidents, including one physical assault on a Roma man by a group, resulting in serious injuries.

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The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina reported 18 incidents directly targeting Islamic symbols or sites, such as mosques and Muslim graveyards, including one incident where thirteen wooden tombstones in a Muslim cemetery were uprooted and repositioned into the shape of a cross.

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The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina reported 24 hate incidents targeting Christian symbols and sites, such as churches and Christian graveyards, including damage to 20 tombstones in an Orthodox graveyard and graffiti on the door of an Orthodox church.

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The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina reported one physical assault against a gay man by masked perpetrators resulting in serious injury.

Holy See
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The Holy See reported a physical assault against a nun, one case of graffiti on a church, two cases of damage to property against a school and a car, eight cases of church desecration, five of which also included thefts, and one case of threats.

ODIHR Recommendations

ODIHR observes that Bosnia and Herzegovina has not reported on the numbers of prosecuted cases or information on sentenced hate crime cases to ODIHR.