Students in BiH rarely report sexual harassment, but there are, here are examples.

Three students of the Faculty of Law of Bihac in the last ten years have reported the same professor for offenses which can be characterized as sexual Harassment . How many such cases are common at universities in BiH?

Students in BiH rarely reported sexual harassment, assault or exploitation, even more rarely such cases end indictment. However, Ervin Piralić, a student of the Faculty of Law of the University of Bihac, in October last year filed criminal charges against the professor Genc Trnavcija for the criminal offense of gross indecency and violence. It is the third student who is in the last ten years, reported the same professor for the same offense, writes DW .

The controversial case occurred in June 2014 when Ervin comes with Trnavcija on registration marks. The professor held that a student deserves a higher score and proposes her to better prepare the material, but asked Ervin to wait for it to finish the exams in order to talk about the material. They agreed to go to a restaurant not far from the college, however, the professor had taken to the nearby forest, convinces in an intimate relationship, and then sexually tempted.

- He took my bag and and put it on the front seat. He told me that I can scream as much as I want, but if no one can hear. Through my head is over a hundred thoughts, I thought that I would not get out alive. On the front seat I asked if he could move on to the last, which I refused. I told him no way. I have apologized to him for something, for you do not know what, because I have not figured why me man brought here, I think that I have done something wrong. Then he said, "so relax colleagues, I have a weapon if someone accidentally us and attacked". I've realized as an indirect threat -, led the student, along with other details, in one of the press release.

Audio recording as evidence

Ervin in his testimony that the professor does not respond to her crying and pleas to stop, but wants her to relax.

- You do not know what you're missing '- those were the words of its head and then he said,' but you know if you came to me in a sexual relationship and if it was close to me you would have a great academic benefit. You know that I am a very influential professor, a respected professor. You have to think about this, I think you're just a little surprised by my procedure so you as it is not clear '. And then he went in the direction of the city ... -, told the Ervin.

BiH in the maelstrom of sex scandal

Globally BiH fits well in world trends. Sex scandals are in the country have become exciting tapeworm, although players are not as glamorous as Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi, or IMF chief Strauss-Kahn. (06.06.2011) A day later Ervin lighted phone comes in the professor's office and recorded a conversation with him in which she apologized for the actions of the previous day. From the video, which was posted and some media, clearly make out the professor's apology after his student says he did not expect to take her to the kind of place that wants her to kiss him and hug.

- Excuse me. Never more it will not happen again. If I offended you, I'm sorry - corresponds to a male voice, which accused the professor says that is not his.

Audio clip she needed, Ervin story, because she knew that if the court came to, her word to be weak against the professor. But a criminal complaint was not filed. From his lawyer received information that a trial could be long and difficult, which is why all decide to cover up. Two years later, in the case of Contract Law, teaching her again Professor Trnavci. At a lecture he claimed Ervin, brutally insulted in front of other students, and that was the turning point when he decided that the professor should report, as in the rectory, and in the cantonal prosecutor.

The investigation was suspended, a student does not want to give up

Six months after he filed a criminal complaint, in April this year, Ervin received a notice from the prosecutor's office that the investigation against Trnavcija suspended due to lack of evidence. Audio recording submitted by the characterized as illegal, and not by the expert testimony. Ervin claims that the investigation flights were awkward, citing a series of illogical, from being interrogated witnesses who had no connection with the case to the fact that the prosecutor on the case was not addressed by the medical institution in which Ervin treated.

It is the third student who filed the complaint against Trnavcija in the last ten years. The previous two applications were rejected. Genc Trnavci told reporters that he is the victim of a conspiracy with fellow faculty because at the time the scandal broke was a candidate for the dean. At a press conference called after the suspension of the investigation said that against him for the sake of education mafia and accused the management of the Faculty of Law in Bihac that he persuaded a student to register it. He announced that he will continue to fight against the actors, he said, harangue, which was fought against him and to criminal charges, the Office of Disciplinary Counsel with the HJPC and civil court proceedings, of which this time, he claims, will not give up, writes DW .

Do not give up claims and student Ervin Piralić, although the Office of the Chief Cantonal Prosecutor rejected her complaint against the decision to suspend the investigation. Ervin's acting prosecutor applied to the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council, and all documents forwarded to the Federal Prosecutor's Office. She doubts the professionalism of cantonal justice and believes that sexual harassment in universities certainly has, but that it is not reported.

Students do not report harassment

With the University of Bihac did not get the information to you, in addition to Ervin, in the past five years, more students reported the sexual harassment or non-teaching behavior professor. They answered us are not even from the Student Union of the University of Bihac.

On Banja Luka universities in the last five years had no reported cases of sexual harassment or abuse. At the University's sexual harassment defined in the Rules on disciplinary and material responsibility of employees of the University and the Code of Professional Ethics of the University of Banja Luka. The said Ordinance, violence based on gender, discrimination, harassment and sexual harassment of other employees and students or mobbing, is defined as a serious breach of working obligations, and as such is subject to disciplinary action. The Code specifies measures for violation of the same, such as a warning, public reprimand and public condemnation.

Out of the University of Mostar has been no case of sexual harassment or abuse in the past five years. This issue and the possible penalties for these offenses are defined by the Code of Ethics at the University level, and on the faculties there are boxes with the possibility of the application, confirmed by Vojo Višekruna, Deputy Rector for Education and Students of the University of Mostar.

The affair "Bachelor": shaking the academic community, were born niches'

The answers to the questions posed by e-mail we have received from the University of Tuzla and Sarajevo. Precisely at the Sarajevo Faculty of Law, currently before Zdravko Lucic and Enes Durmišević, two professors who in 2015 first instance verdict of the Municipal Court in Tuzla sentenced to probation for sex affairs with students and abuse of office. Late last year, the Cantonal Court in Tuzla on appeal overturned the verdict Lucic and determined retrial, while Durmišević fully acquitted because the subject is outdated.

Thus ended ingloriously subject called "Diploma", which in 2008 deeply shook BiH. Academic community and should uncover a wide network of sexual exploitation of female students. During the investigation mentioned the names of a dozen distinguished professors, lawyers, politicians, and even warlords. In the dock ended four professors. Two of them died while the long process, but died on the Prosecutor Dijana Milic. She is, according to her acquaintances, just the subject of "Bachelor" brought pressure, mobbing and accusations with which she could not cope.

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, as learned DW, is not done none of the relevant research on sexual harassment and assault in higher education institutions. Only such research in Croatia, even in 2001, showed that six percent of students experienced more difficult, and even 35 percent less severe forms of sexual harassment, but also in the country, students rarely choose to report or to sue professors.

• 22 Jun, 2017
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