[15][18] The rioting largely took place in the entity of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the same level of unrest or activism did not occur in Republika Srpska.

"[23][24] After World War II, Tuzla developed into a major industrial and cultural centre during the communist period in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

During the first decade of the 21st century, four former state-owned companies, including furniture and washing powder factories, were sold to private owners who were contracted to invest in and make them profitable.

An average monthly salary in Bosnia and Herzegovina was 300 euros at the time (about $350), with one in five citizens living below the poverty line.

[citation needed] The protests mark the largest outbreak of public anger over high unemployment and two decades of political inertia in the Balkan country of 3.8 million people since the end of the 1992–95 war.

[29] The protests later spread to various cities across Bosnia and Herzegovina, including Bihać, Mostar, Zenica, Kakanj and the capital Sarajevo.

[31] Some of the protesters threw eggs, flares and stones at the windows of the building and set tires on fire, blocking traffic in the city center.

[citation needed] The protesters gathered in front of the cantonal government building, requesting compensation and repayments of healthcare and pension payments after the privatized companies for which they worked failed.

Local media reports said that some protesters scuffled with police after breaking into the cantonal government building, while others set garbage containers and tires on fire.

[9] It was reported that, by the end of the day, a total of twenty-two people, including 17 police officers, had been injured, while 24 were arrested for their involvement in the protests.

[39] On Thursday, 6 February, the protests spread into multiple cities in the country, at first by people who wanted to show solidarity with the citizens of Tuzla.

[48] Schools throughout Tuzla were closed and residents of buildings yelled insults and threw buckets of water at the officers who passed-by in full riot gear.

[50] After a long day of waiting, 10,000 outraged protesters broke through the last line of police defense around the cantonal government building.

[52] By 8 February, the riots had stopped and all the people had resumed peaceful protests and began clearing the streets of garbage and debris.

[53][54][55] On 7 February, protestors in Zenica forced their way through a police cordon and set fire to a local government building and surrounding cars.

Prohibitive measures include: ban on meeting and communicating, confiscation of passports and identity documents, and they will need to report twice weekly to the relevant police department."

[62] Some time after 10 o'clock in the evening, an explosion in Skenderija shocked the Sarajevo metropolitan area; no casualties were reported.

On 10 February 2014, after days of protests that involved at least 3,000 people, the Prime Minister of the Una-Sana Canton Hamdija Lipovača officially resigned.

[82][needs update] Large amounts of historical documents were destroyed when sections of the Archives of Bosnia and Herzegovina, housed in the presidential building, were set on fire.

Numerous organizations and foreign archives have offered to help with the restoration, and the Turkish agency TIKA has taken an initiative to assist with the preservation of the remaining documents.

[87] On 4 April 2014, both were released (although still under suspicion of terrorism), on conditions that they don't leave their places of residence and abstain from having any contact with each other.