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The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the former Hague Tribunal, has rejected the request of former Republika Srpska Army commander Ratko Mladic for his provisional release on health grounds. Although medical reports indicate a serious health condition and approaching the end of his life, the court assessed that he is receiving the most specialized care possible and there are no humanitarian reasons for his release.
Mladic, sentenced in 2021 to life imprisonment for genocide and war crimes, had requested to spend his final months in Serbia, claiming that he did not pose a flight risk. But the court categorically rejected this claim, stressing that “his continued detention does not constitute inhuman or degrading treatment and upholds the fundamental principles of punishment.”
Mladic was found guilty of the genocide of nearly 8,000 Bosniaks in Srebrenica in 1995, the forced displacement of Bosniaks and Croats, the terrorization of civilians during the siege of Sarajevo, and the taking of UN peacekeepers hostage during the NATO bombing. He remained on the run for 16 years until his arrest in Serbia in May 2011 and extradition to The Hague.
This decision ends any hope of Mladic getting out of prison, leaving him to serve out his sentence for one of the worst crimes committed in Europe since World War II.
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