Serbian lawyers invited the Constitutional Court of Montenegro to check the legality of the repressions of the Djukanovic regime
The Radić law firm from Belgrade initiated an initiative to the Constitutional Court of Montenegro to check the legality of the ban on Serbian citizens entering the country, the ban on SOC priests serving, and the country’s citizens expressing disagreement with the discriminatory “Law on Freedom of Religion.”
Balkan media reported this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“In accordance with Article 150 of the Constitution of the Republic of Montenegro, which gives the Constitutional Court the right to voluntarily initiate proceedings to assess constitutionality or legality, as well as to issue orders to ensure the execution of certain acts or actions, if their execution may entail adverse consequences, we propose to the court, in accordance with the attached document, use it according to their competence and thereby help reduce existing tensions,” says the open letter from the Radic law firm.
In turn, Serbian lawyers consider it unconstitutional and illegal to prohibit the entry of Serbian citizens into Montenegro, for SOC priests to perform religious sacraments, for SOC believers to celebrate Orthodox holidays, and also to prohibit Montenegrin citizens from expressing disagreement with the law “which unconstitutionally and illegally confiscates real estate.”
“We propose that the Constitutional Court of Montenegro decide that the actions initiated by the National Coordination Body for Infectious Diseases contradict the provisions of the Law “On the Protection of the Population from Infectious Diseases” and, in particular, the fact that the Minister, contrary to his powers, appoints Deputy Prime Minister by the President of this organization,” the message says. – The adoption of temporary measures to prevent the entry of the new coronavirus into the country, suppress and prevent the transmission of the new coronavirus are unconstitutional and illegal, since the Ministry of Health usurps the rights of the Assembly and determines prison sentences.
We expect that the Constitutional Court, on its own initiative, will decide to suspend all administrative and criminal cases brought against SOC clergy and citizens of Montenegro for alleged non-compliance with sanitary rules.”
It should be noted that previously the Radić Law Firm has repeatedly defended the rights of the Serbian Orthodox Church. And the above letter was hardly written in the hope that the Constitutional Court of Montenegro, which has merged with the state system of the dictator Milo Djukanovic, will make the right decisions, rather in order to show the international community the inconsistency of the regime’s repressive measures with the country’s legislation.
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