The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina annulled the decision of the Security Ministry and the Foreigners' Affairs Service which recently put under surveillance Fatih Keskin, Turkish citizen currently residing in Bosnia, a team of attorneys 'Ademovic, Nozica and partners' said on Monday.
“Fatih Keskin's appeal has been accepted, while both the final and first-instance decision of the Security Ministry and the Foreigners’ Affairs Service, based on which Keskin was put under surveillance in the Immigration Centre, have been annulled,” the attorneys said, adding that the case has been returned to the first-instance bodies.
Richmond Park Schools principal Fatih Keskin, a Turkish citizen who lived in Bosnia for the past 20 years, has been taken to the immigration centre of the Service for Foreigners Affairs and was declared a threat to national security, Senka Nozica, from Keskin’s legal team, told N1 last Thursday.
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Keskin was taken away after speaking to police in the northwestern Una-Sana Canton on Tuesday. According to Richmond Park Schools, he was not allowed to contact his attorney and the next time his family heard from him, he reportedly said he was in the migrant detention centre in Lukavica, near Sarajevo.
Nozica said Keskin was handed two documents as he entered the immigration centre – one saying that he is being put under supervision, which his lawyers appealed, and another one saying that he is being stripped of his right to permanently reside in the country.
Following the latest court decision, the team of lawyers representing Keskin said the Court clearly stated that an intelligence document saying that Keskin was a threat to national security was insufficient for the Court to pass a decision on the regularity of this allegation.
“Besides, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina said in the explanation of its decision that the Security Ministry of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Foreigners’ Affairs Service did not determine the facts at all but only referred to the said report of the Intelligence-Security Agency (OSA),” said the attorneys.
