A man who is an adviser to a member of parliament says he was summoned by police in Montenegro over a Facebook post about marking Njegoš’s day as a state holiday. According to him, the police call came on a request from the prosecutor’s office, and he described his post as “very correct and cultural,” saying it was meant to protect his people and Islam from what he called Islamophobic content. He claimed he was not insulting anyone and used the post to accuse prosecutors of selective treatment, mentioning alleged references to people convicted of war crimes and urging his supporters to stand firm. The adviser’s comments were challenged publicly by a politician who questioned why the man was called to the interior ministry and demanded the legal basis for the police request. In response, the politician argued that institutions must respect freedom of expression under the Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights, and said police powers are not unlimited. He cited provisions in Montenegro’s criminal procedure code on how citizens may be called in, including respect for personal dignity, and said any institutional action must be based on a concrete legal ground, necessity, and proportionality. The politician also said it should not be accepted that citizens begin to calculate whether they will be taken to police before expressing an opinion, adding that democracy includes the right to hold different views. The adviser previously wrote about an event in Rožaje where, as he posted, an observer lesson on Njegoš was held at a high school, using sharp language and calling for political representatives to intervene.