SRS: Denying Seselj's wish would be direct attack on him

BELGRADE - The Serbian Radical Party (SRS) stated on Wednesday that SRS leader Vojislav Sesslj has already stated the conditions under which he would accept possible provisional release, and if the Serbian government denied his wishes that would constitute a direct attack on him.

The ICTY Trial Chamber requested that the host country (Netherlands) and the Serbian government should provide guarantees for Seselj's provisional release, the SRS statement reads.

If Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and President Tomislav Nikolic acted in line with the order of the Trial Chamber, they would thus join ICTY in the conspiracy against Seselj, says the statement.

The SRS has therefore warned that this game of the Hague Tribunal regarding the provisional release of the SRS leader is yet another proof that the Chamber had to make a decision on suspension of the trial and Seselj's final release, since this is the only solution that would have sense after 12 years of illegal detention at the Hague Tribunal.

Seselj previously informed the trial chamber that if granted provisional release, he would not accept any limitations excluding not leaving the territory of Serbia.

Seselj voluntarily surrendered himself to the ICTY on February 23, 2003. He pleaded not guilty to all counts in an indictment charging him with crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Vojvodina between 1991 and 1993.

He has since been held in the UN detention unit in Scheveningen, outside The Hague, and the case, which commenced on November 7, 2007, is still at trial. The prosecution completed the presentation of its evidence on January 13, 2010 and the accused, who is representing...