Radovan Karadzic transferred to Britain to serve sentence

Radovan Karadzic was transferred on Wednesday from the United Nations's Hague detention unit in Britain, former Bosnian President Goran Petronijevic told the media.

Petronijevic added that he had talked with Karadzic briefly Wednesday when he landed in London, but has no further information on his whereabouts.

The UN tribunal in The Hague in March 2019 for the genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica, the persecution of Bosniaks and Croats throughout the country during wartime, terrorising the Sarajevo population during the city's siege and taking the hostage of UN peacekeepers.

Karadzic rejected the verdict by The Hague's International Criminal Court Mechanism to send him to Britain to serve his sentence, claiming he could become the target of a potentially lethal attack by other prisoners.

His defence team argued Karadzic, 75, would be jeopardised by Muslim extremists”.

He also said that to keep Karadzic safe from the attack, he would have to be kept in conditions similar to isolation.

He cited an attack at Wakefield Prison in Britain in 2010 on Bosnian Serb Army General Radislav Krstic, whose three Muslim prisoners cut his face and neck in his cell.

Krstic, who as Karadzic was convicted of genocide by Bosniaks from Srebrenica, was transferred back to the Netherlands and later to a Polish prison

However, the UN tribunal brought down his objections.