ICTY Justice: Doctors not allowed to use diagnostic equipment to examine Ratko Mladic, medical records "disappeared"

Serbian doctors who examined Ratko Mladic in the Hague detention on Monday and Tuesday were not allowed to use the ECG or the scanner, although they needed them and they were available, reports Serbian daily "Vecernje Novosti".

Mladic's defense attorney Branko Lukic told the daily that the scanner was located almost two doors from the premises were Mladic was examined, and there was also a detention nurse.

Doctors from Belgrade, cardiac surgeon Velibor Ristic and neuropsychiatrist Gorica Djokic were not allowed to use any diagnostic apparatus used by doctors in Sheveningen during the examination of Mladic. After a long correspondence with defense lawyers and doctors, they were finally given only a detention stethoscope and a pressure gauge.

Before they came for the examination, Djokic and Ristic were informed that they cannot bring in anything other then a pencil...