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Karadzic 'Held Illegally for Three Days' 25 July 2008 Belgrade _ Radovan Karadzic's lawyer claims the former Bosnian Serb leader accused of war crimes was held in custody for three days illegally. Svetozar Vujacic told journalists in front of the Special Court in Belgrade that Karadzic had described to the prosecutor his movements since July 18 and "the method of arrest and transfer" to an unknown place, as he put it. He reiterated Karadzic's claim that he was arrested on Friday, July 18, and not Monday when the news of his capture broke. Vujacic yesterday lodged a criminal complaint against an unknown individual for unlawful deprivation of freedom between July 18 and 21 before the war crimes suspect was handed over to the investigative judge. Recounting the details of his conversation with Karadzic, Vujacic said that Karadzic and fellow war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic had last seen each other when the former had handed over his duties as Republika Srpska President to Biljana Plavsic, and had not been in contact with Mladic since. Karadzic is accused of genocide, complicity in genocide, execution, murder, punishment, deportation, inhumane acts and other crimes committed against Bosniaks (also known as Bosnian Muslims), Croats and other non-Serb civilians in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war. The deadline for filing an appeal over the conditions for Karadzic's extradition expires later on Friday and earlier Vujacic announced that he would be sending the appeal by mail today at 1955 CEST (1755 GMT), right before the deadline. Read more: http://balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/12074/ According to procedure, the War Crimes Chamber has three days in which to respond to the appeal. An appeal cannot be filed against the war crimes chamber's ruling afterwards, and the final decision for extradition is taken by the Justice Ministry. __._,_.___ Serbian News Network - SNN [email protected] http://www.antic.org/
