Bosnia and Herzegovina people

Former Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic's defence has submitted a challenge to the decision on Tuesday by the UN court in The Hague to transfer him to a prison in Britain to serve his life sentence for genocide and other wartime crimes, claiming he could become the target for a potentially deadly attack by other prisoners.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, sentenced to life for war crimes and genocide, will serve his sentence in a UK prison, the British government announced on Wednesday. Karadzic, 75, is one of the chief architects of the slaughter and devastation of Bosnia's 1992-95 war, AP recalls.

Lawmakers in the Republika Srpska National Assembly voted on Tuesday evening to reject a demand from High Representative Valentin Inzko, the international overseer of Bosnia's peace agreement, for people convicted of war crimes to be stripped of decorations awarded to them by the National Assembly in 2016.

The Bosnian Serb parliament will discuss a request from Bosnia's international overseer, the Office of the High Representative, OHR, to revoke decorations given to convicted war criminals.

High Representative Valentin Inzko, the international overseer of Bosnia and Herzegovina's peace agreement, has sent a letter demanded that Republika Srpska National Assembly, the parliament in the Serb-dominated entity, annuls honours that it awarded last October to people convicted of war crimes within "a deadline of three months, by the end of April 2021".

The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague turned down Milomir Stakic's request to be freed early, ruling he has not yet served the required two-thirds of his 40-year sentence for persecution, extermination and murder.

As it was stated, a council of doctors met at the UCC RS and reviewed Dodik's health condition.
It has been noticed that he has difficulty breathing and pain in the area of the abdomen.
Pneumonia of both lungs was diagnosed, and the third test for coronavirus was positive, RTRS reports.

He was admitted to the hospital due to nausea and stomach pain, and his health condition is stable for now and his life is not in danger, the UCC announced today.
Further diagnostics are currently underway.
The media previously stated that Dodik has pneumonia, according to ATVBL.

Radovan Karadzic's lawyer Peter Robinson told BIRN that the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals decided earlier this month to temporarily allow UN Detention Unit prisoners to make video calls to immediate relatives after the former Bosnian Serb political leader appealed to the UN court.

Carmel Agius, the president of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, ordered the UN court's registrar to institute a video communications service for detainees such as former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic by May 14.