News in English     | 16.05.2018. 15:16 |

Ratko Mladić’s bid to prosecute Hague Tribunal doctors rejected

FENA Press release

THE HAGUE/SARAJEVO, May 16 (FENA) - Former Bosnian Serb Army Ratko Mladić’s request for contempt of court proceedings against medical staff at the UN Detention Unit, who he accuses of being responsible for his deteriorating health, was rejected.

The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Wednesday said it has rejected a request filed by Ratko Mladić’s defense to initiate proceedings for contempt of court against healthcare officers at the UN Detention Unit in nearby Scheveningen.

“Considering the fact that the motions filed by Mladić’s defense, which express dissatisfaction with medical care at the Detention Unit, do not indicate that the medical staff knowingly and intentionally obstructed justice, I conclude that Mladić’s defense has not demonstrated the existence of suspicion that they are guilty of contempt of court,” court president Theodor Meron’s decision said.

Mladić’s defence wanted proceedings launched against the chief of medical staff at the Detention Unit, Dr. Paulus Falke, and other healthcare workers, claiming they were responsible for deterioration of the defendant’s health condition.

The former Bosnian Serb military chief’s lawyers have made representations to the court several times, requested on several occasions, insisting that his health has deteriorated in custody.

On previous occasions, they have asked for the pronouncement of his verdict to be postponed, for doctors to be punished and for Mladić to be released for treatment, insisting that he has not received adequate care at the Detention Unit and that he needed hospitalization.

In November last year, the UN court sentenced Mladić to life imprisonment, finding him guilty of genocide in Srebrenica, persecution of Bosniaks and Croats throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina, terrorizing the population of Sarajevo and taking UN peacekeepers hostage.

Mladić was acquitted of genocide charges in six other Bosnian municipalities.

Both the defense and the prosecutors have announced they will file appeals.

Mladić has been held in detention since May 2011, when he was arrested in Serbia and sent to The Hague, BIRN reports.

(FENA) S. R.

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