ICTY won't let Mladic get medical treatment in Russia

Moscow says it was "bewildered" at the refusal of the Hague Tribunal to temporarily release Ratko Mladic for medical treatment in Russia.

"The refusal to transfer the Serb for medical treatment is quite illustrative of Hague's justice. Previously, the ICTY (Hague Tribunal) used to sanction temporary release of convicts on much less weighty grounds. So, the tribunal's decision and its arguments can cause nothing but bewilderment," the Russian Foreign Ministry said, according to TASS.

The ministry further "expressed concern over the fact that the ICTY's Trial Chamber based its opinion about allegedly adequate medical control and the age-related nature of Mladic's illness on the conclusions of the ICTY penitentiary's medics and some 'independent medical specialists', despite the fact that the prison in Scheveningen, where convicts keep on dying under unclear circumstance,...

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