Constitutional Court forbids civic authorities from revoking suspects’ passports

The Constitutional Court has abolished part of a legislative act allowing authorities to revoke the passports of suspects in criminal cases. In its ruling the court stated that the law denies such people the opportunity for revocations to be reviewed judicially. Legislators will now have until the end of next year to modify the act, until which time the travel documents of suspects facing three years of prison or more may be revoked by the police or the courts.