7 hours agoRatko Mladic remains in prison. Early release request denied
Periskopi(10 months ago)
(10 months ago)International Residol Mechanism President for Criminal Court (MRMGP), Judge Gracilla Gatti Santana, has today made the decision, with which she refuses the request of former commander of the Republika Srpska Army, war criminal Ratko Mladic, for early release for humanitarian reasons. Mladic criminal serving a life sentence for [...]
The criminal Mladic, who is serving life sentence for genocide, crimes against humanity and violations of the laws and customs of war committed during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, has submitted the request on June 2nd of this year, referring to an alleged incurable disease and an expected short life expectancy.
In the decision, Mechanism stresses that, although Mladic's health condition has deteriorated due to his age and serious illness, his condition is currently stable and he does not meet conditions for extraordinary humanitarian circumstances that would justify early release, reports Clix.ba.
Medical findings indicate that while life is in danger and functionally dependent on help from others, it does not suffer from an acute incurable disease, it transmits Telegram.
The “conditions of his detention are fully in line with the principles of humanity and dignity, with care of high quality and regular contact with the family,” said in the decision.
Mechanism stresses that criminal Mladic spends most of his time at The Hague special prison hospital ( J CvSZ, where it is under continued supervision by a medical team and has access to therapy and visits.
Although one of the judges, Prisca Matimba Nyamb, has expressed the opinion that the request should be approved in view of worsening the state of health and “potentially inhuman” conditions, most of the consulted judges have disagreed with this stance.
They have considered that not enough humanitarian reasons have been proven to dominate the interests of justice and the importance of crimes for which Mladic has been convicted.
Mladic was arrested in 2011 in Serbia and sentenced in 2017 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, while his sentence was confirmed in 2021. He is in UN custody unit at The Hague for more than 14 years.
The mechanism has ordered that maximum access of family members continue according to its state of health, and the president will continue to follow the state of health and take all necessary measures. /Periscopi/
