The trial of Ratko Mladic interrupted due to 'unforeseen circumstances'
The testimony of the defense witness Ratko Mladic to the Hague tribunal was interrupted shortly after the hearing, and after the break below the accused was not in the courtroom.
After two questions by the prosecutor this morning set svjedokuDraganu Kijac, session, at the request of Mladic's defense counsel Branko Lukic, was closed to the public. When, after about ten minutes open, Presiding Judge Alphons Orie interrupted the session because of "unforeseen circumstances", reports BIRN - Justice Report.
What are these circumstances, the judge has not told even when, after the two-hour session continued consideration of procedural issues.
Mladic was not in the courtroom, and his counsel Lukic said that the accused waived his right to attend the continuation of the process.
After an administrative hearing, Judge Orie is the continuation of the trial of General Mladic scheduled for Monday 26 October.
Before his arrest in May 2011, the young man has survived three strokes. In The Hague he was treated for pneumonia and undergone minor interventions.
In early June 2013, Mladic was in the courtroom thanked the Tribunal and its medical staff as he "saved my life" and "pulled it from the grave." A doctor from the detention on remand is specified at the time that the situation Mladic "stable" and that there is no change for the worse.
Mladic, former commander of the Serbian Republic, is charged with genocide in Srebrenica, persecution of Muslims and Croats throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is in the six municipalities of the scale of genocide, terrorizing civilians in Sarajevo and taking international soldiers as hostages.
- 22 Oct, 2015
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