The top court in Bosnia and Herzegovina has rejected an appeal by Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik against a verdict barring him from politics.

The Constitutional Court’s decision on Tuesday was Dodik’s last legal recourse before the country’s judiciary, months after a Sarajevo court convicted him for refusing to comply with decisions issued by the international envoy overseeing the country’s peace deal.

Dodik, former president of Bosnia’s autonomous Serb Republic or Republika Srpska, was sentenced in February to one year in prison for defying Christian Schmidt, the German diplomat responsible for safeguarding the 1995 peace accords that ended Bosnia’s 1990s war.

He was also banned from holding political office for six years and stripped of his post as president.

Dodik, a pro-Ru

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