Ratko Mladic submitted the request to be released by health land last month, saying that he was only a few months to live.
A United Nations War Crimes Court has denied a request from Ratko Mladic, an infamous Serbian Bosnian military leader during the Yugoslav wars from 1992 to 1995, which supervised the massacre of Srebrenica, which was released early to Serbia for health terrain.
Judge Graciela Gatti Santana, of the international residual mechanism for the criminal courts, the Court commissioned the management of remaining cases of the Yugoslava War Crimes Court, said Tuesday that Mladic's condition did not comply with the threshold of an “acute terminal disease” required for early launch.
Mladic, known as the “Bosnia butcher”, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2017 for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. He had submitted a request to be released on June 3, 2025, saying that he was only a few months to live.
“I recognize that Mladic's current condition, which requires dependence on others for daily life activities, is precarious,” Santana said in a 12 -page decision issued in The Hague on Tuesday.
“However, Mladic continues to receive very complete and compassionate attention, as medical reports widely support it.
“The information I have before me shows that the convincing humanitarian circumstances invoked by Mladic as a basis for their release are not justified.”
Mladic, 83, was sentenced by the UN Court by former Yugoslavia for his role in the terror of the civilian population during the siege of 43 months of the capital of Bosnia Sarajevo and the 1995 Srebrenic massacre.
Some 8,000 Muslim men and children were killed in Srebrenica by the Bosnian Serbian forces in July of that year.
The genocide of Srebrenica was the bloody crescendo of the Bosnian war, which exploded during the dissolution of Yugoslavia, since the Bosnian Serbs sought to force areas dominated by Serbs through ethnic cleaning against the other two main ethnic populations in the country: Croats and Bosnian muslimates. Until the Russian-Ukraine War, the Bosnian War was considered the most violent conflict in Europe since the end of World War II.
Mladic has been described for a long time by his lawyers as sick and fragile. In their last request, they said that he suffered an incurable disease and that “his remaining life expectancy is measured in months,” according to a presentation observed by the AFP news agency.
His defense first sought provisional release for medical reasons in 2017.
Santana said that Mladic's continuous imprisonment was not “inhuman or degrading.”
Mladic was arrested in Serbia in 2011 after 16 years in the race and is serving his sentence in The Hague.
His son, Darko, often talks to Serbian media about the poor health of his father, who is still seen as a hero by the nationalists in Serbia.
