General Ratko Mladic Refused To Be Released On Family Matters

A Serbian general convicted of war crimes asked to be released for seven days.

The president of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) Graciela Gatti Santana has denied former Serbian general Ratko Mladic a release to visit the grave of a relative. This is reported on the IOMUT website.

Mladic asked to be released for seven days so that he could visit the grave of a close relative and also recover from a trip. In doing so, he agreed to be under police surveillance around the clock.

Explaining the reasons for the refusal, Santana called the reason for Mladic's request for release unfounded, and also cited concerns about the possible flight of Mladic, who has been convicted of war crimes.

Before that, Mladic's son said his father, who is serving a life sentence, was already very weak. Darko Mladic said he is currently working to prepare a new medical team to visit him in prison.

After the end of the war in Bosnia, Ratko Mladic hid from the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in Serbia for 16 years, but was still arrested and extradited to The Hague in 2011. His trial lasted five years.

In 2017, he was found guilty of 10 of 11 charges, including genocide of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995 and violating the laws and customs of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In July 2025, the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague denied Mladic parole on health grounds.

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