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Four buses carrying Glavas's supporters arrived under police escort in front of Zagreb's prison infirmary around 11 am. Accompanied by members of Glavas's HDSSB party and folklore musicians, they headed for the entrance to the hospital, carrying banners with messages of support and chanting Glavas's name.
HDSSB MP Vladimir Sisljagic presented Glavas with postcards with images of Osijek and messages of support from his sympathisers.
After an hour-long meeting with Glavas, who has been on a hunger strike for eight days, Sisljagic said that Glavas was visibly weaker but that he was determined to continue with the strike.
"He... wants you and the incumbent government to know that he won't be a scapegoat in currying favour with the international community, which is what the incumbent government is doing, and he won't tolerate being charged with cases with which he has nothing to do," Sisljagic said.
Osijek and Croatia were not defended with crimes, which is what the media, which are manipulated, are trying to say, Sisljagic said, adding that his attempts to talk Glavas out of the hunger strike had been in vain.
An attorney for Glavas, Ante Madunic, said that his client had visibly lost weight, but that he looked good. Glavas is not eating and does not want to take any vitamins, he drinks water and allows only his blood pressure to be measured regularly, Madunic said.
He confirmed that he had requested the court in charge of the case that Glavas be allowed to attend the interviewing of witnesses in the investigation which the Zagreb County Court has been conducting against him since June this year. Glavas is suspected of ordering the murder of two Osijek Serbs and the torture of another three in 1991.
Attorney Madunic also proposed that the court stop treating witness statements as confidential, allow Glavas to communicate by phone with his three-member defence team every day, and that meetings with his family members last longer than 15 minutes, as well as that he be allowed to use a computer.
Zagreb County Court spokesman Kresimir Devcic said that Glavas, as a suspect, had the right to attend the interviewing of witnesses and that he would be allowed to do so, but that this would depend on his condition.
Devcic would not comment on Glavas's other requests.
The investigation into Glavas continues on November 7.