{"id":209010,"date":"2026-05-01T14:49:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=209010"},"modified":"2026-05-01T14:49:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:49:36","slug":"suffers-from-incurable-disease-approaching-the-end-of-life-defense-filed-a-new-request-for-the-urgent-release-of-ratka-mladic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/suffers-from-incurable-disease-approaching-the-end-of-life-defense-filed-a-new-request-for-the-urgent-release-of-ratka-mladic\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;SUFFERS FROM INCURABLE DISEASE, APPROACHING THE END OF LIFE&#8221;: Defense filed a new request for the urgent release of Ratka Mladi\u0107!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>The defense of General Ratko Mladi\u0107 has requested from the court in The Hague that Mladi\u0107 be urgently released on temporary or conditional liberty for humanitarian reasons, given that he suffers from an incurable disease and is approaching the end of his life.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the request published today, which was submitted yesterday, the defense emphasized that Mladi\u0107&#8217;s health is &#8220;irreversibly&#8221; impaired as a result of the latest &#8220;medical incident&#8221; he survived in April and that he is &#8220;approaching the end of his life.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defense representatives specified in the request that General Mladi\u0107 suffers from &#8220;chronic heart and kidney failure, diabetes, and strokes&#8221; and that he cannot communicate, which is why it is necessary for him to be under 24-hour medical supervision, which is impossible in the palliative care unit in the detention of the court in The Hague.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former commander of the Army of Republika Srpska, General Mladi\u0107 (84), is serving a life sentence to which the Hague Tribunal sentenced him for genocide and war crimes against Muslims and Croats during the war in BiH, 1992-95.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mladi\u0107&#8217;s defense had already submitted a request for his release from detention in Scheveningen on April 23, but yesterday sent an urgency to the court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week, the president of the Hague court, Graciela Gatti Santana, ordered that General Mladi\u0107 be examined by independent specialist doctors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Judge Santana should receive the report from those specialists today, and will then decide whether sufficient humanitarian reasons exist for Mladi\u0107 to be released on temporary liberty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The president of the Hague court confirmed that Mladi\u0107 was &#8220;transferred to the emergency center of a civilian hospital on April 17, from which he was discharged the same day in &#8216;stable condition&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#d21414\" class=\"has-inline-color\">FIND OUT MORE<\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-serbiantimes-info-en wp-block-embed-serbiantimes-info-en\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"lHwGbDNqLS\"><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/dodik-welcomed-in-chicago-by-bosniak-demonstrators-and-american-recognition-he-compared-himself-to-trump-renounced-serbs-who-committed-crimes-but-reinstated-there-was-no-genocide-in-srebrenica-video\/\">DODIK WELCOMED IN CHICAGO BY BOSNIAK DEMONSTRATORS AND AMERICAN RECOGNITION: He compared himself to Trump, renounced Serbs who committed crimes, but reinstated there was no genocide in Srebrenica! (VIDEO)<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;DODIK WELCOMED IN CHICAGO BY BOSNIAK DEMONSTRATORS AND AMERICAN RECOGNITION: He compared himself to Trump, renounced Serbs who committed crimes, but reinstated there was no genocide in Srebrenica! (VIDEO)&#8221; &#8212; Serbiantimes.info EN\" src=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/dodik-welcomed-in-chicago-by-bosniak-demonstrators-and-american-recognition-he-compared-himself-to-trump-renounced-serbs-who-committed-crimes-but-reinstated-there-was-no-genocide-in-srebrenica-video\/embed\/#?secret=g4c5pKnkrI#?secret=lHwGbDNqLS\" data-secret=\"lHwGbDNqLS\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the report regarding this, doctors informed Judge Gatti Santana about the &#8220;steps they subsequently took in treating a &#8216;potentially curable cause&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defense representatives in the request published today specify that Mladi\u0107 spends most of his time in a wheelchair or in bed and that therefore there is no risk of his eventual escape if he were to be released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to defense attorney Dragan Iveti\u0107, on April 17, during a conversation with his son Darko via video link, Mladi\u0107 experienced an &#8220;acute neurological&#8221; symptom of loss of the power of speech, which is why he was urgently transferred to the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;On the first day after returning from the hospital, Mladi\u0107 spoke better, but since then he has been unintelligible and unable to speak,&#8221; reads the defense request, which specifies that, according to doctors, Mladi\u0107 survived a &#8220;stroke.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Attorney Iveti\u0107 refers to the findings of two Serbian doctors who visited Mladi\u0107 on April 22 and determined that his life is in danger and that the &#8220;risk of imminent death is high,&#8221; and that appropriate palliative care cannot be provided to him in the prison hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because of this, the defense requested that General Mladi\u0107 be urgently released to a hospital at a location that has been redacted in the request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Judge Santana already rejected an identical request from Mladi\u0107&#8217;s defense at the end of July last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In that decision, she confirmed that, according to doctors, Mladi\u0107 is &#8220;approaching the end of his life,&#8221; but concluded that the general in detention in The Hague &#8220;receives comprehensive and compassionate care.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former commander of the Army of Republika Srpska, General Mladi\u0107, was sentenced before the Hague Tribunal to life imprisonment for the genocide in Srebrenica and crimes against humanity against Muslims and Croats in BiH, including the terrorizing of civilians in Sarajevo, 1992-95.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#d21414\" class=\"has-inline-color\">MORE TOPICS:<\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/confession-of-a-serb-who-fought-in-vietnam-started-from-chicago-wounded-in-the-hell-of-the-jungle-received-a-medal-his-mother-saved-his-life-in-the-end-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">CONFESSION OF A SERB WHO FOUGHT IN VIETNAM: Started from Chicago, wounded in the hell of the jungle, received a medal, his mother saved his life in the end! 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