Former Bosnian -Serbian commander Ratko Mladic (82), who He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2017 for genocide and war crimes, rejected on Tuesday a judge of the UN Tribunal in the Hague request for early release for health reasons. TASR informs this based on the AFP report.
Mladic asked for early release on June 3 and claimed to him It remains only a few months of life. The UN Judge of the UN International Tribunals (IRMCT), who took over the agenda of the extinct international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), decided that he is not a “acute fatal disease”, which is required for premature release.
„I acknowledge that Mladic’s current status that makes him dependent on other persons in carrying out everyday activities is problematic”Said Judge Gociela Gatti Santanová in a 12-page verdict. She added that she had a“ comprehensive care ”in prison, as confirmed by medical reports.
“The information I have at my disposal shows that serious humanitarian circumstances referred to as the reason for his dismissal, are not justified”She added, adding that Mladic is not exposed to inhuman or degrading treatment in prison.
ICTY condemned in 2017 the 83-year-old Mladic for life imprisonment for his role in the siege of Sarajevo and the massacre in Srebrenica, where the Bosnian Serbian troops under his command in July 1995 They killed about 8,000 Muslim men and boys. He earned the nickname Butcher from Bosnia.
Mladiča describes his lawyers as a sick and fragile and his release for health reasons have been trying since 2017. In the latest application, they stated that he was suffering from an incurable disease and “the remaining length of his life is calculated in months”.
Mladic spent 16 years old and detained in Serbia in 2011. Since then until the judgment in 2017 was in custody in the Hague. For some Serbs, however, he is a war hero and his name and portrait still appear on the walls in Serbian cities. At the same time, his son Darko regularly informs the Serbian media about his father’s deteriorating condition.
