Sejdić and Finci v. Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sejdić and Finci v. Bosnia and Herzegovina
Decided 22 December 2009
Full case nameSejdić and Finci v. Bosnia and Herzegovina
Case27996/06 and 34836/06
Nationality of partiesBosnia and Herzegovina
Court composition
President
Jean-Paul Costa
Judges
Advocate General
Vincent Berger

Sejdić and Finci v. Bosnia and Herzegovina (27996/06 and 34836/06) was a case (merged from two) decided by the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in December 2009, in the first judgment finding a violation of Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights taken in conjunction with Article 3 of Protocol No. 1 thereof, with regard to the arrangements of the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina in respect of the House of Peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a violation of Article 1 of Protocol No. 12 with regard to the constitutional arrangements on the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The plaintiffs were two citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dervo Sejdić and Jakob Finci, who are of Roma and Jewish ethnicity, respectively.