BELGRADE, June 10 (Hina)- A former chief of the Serbian State Security Service (SDB), U.N. war crimes tribunal's indictee Jovica Stanisic, requested urgent transfer to the tribunal's detention centre after his request to be allowed
house care following a recent operation was denied, the Beta news agency reported. ##L "We thought he would be allowed to go home to recover, but they would not let him go. His attorney has requested that he be transferred to The Hague on the next plane considering conditions in the central jail," Stanisic's wife Gordana told the Frankfurt-based Serbian-language "Vijesti" paper, Beta reported. Stanisic's attorney Vladan Vukicevic confirmed for Radio B92 that his client had requested to be urgently transferred to Scheveningen. Stanisic was charged together with Franko Simatovic Frenki, head of the SDB's intelligence department and the first commander of the Red Berets, the
BELGRADE, June 10 (Hina)- A former chief of the Serbian State
Security Service (SDB), U.N. war crimes tribunal's indictee Jovica
Stanisic, requested urgent transfer to the tribunal's detention
centre after his request to be allowed house care following a recent
operation was denied, the Beta news agency reported. ##L
"We thought he would be allowed to go home to recover, but they would
not let him go. His attorney has requested that he be transferred to
The Hague on the next plane considering conditions in the central
jail," Stanisic's wife Gordana told the Frankfurt-based Serbian-
language "Vijesti" paper, Beta reported.
Stanisic's attorney Vladan Vukicevic confirmed for Radio B92 that
his client had requested to be urgently transferred to
Scheveningen.
Stanisic was charged together with Franko Simatovic Frenki, head of
the SDB's intelligence department and the first commander of the
Red Berets, the SDB's unit for special operations. Simatovic has
already been transferred to The Hague while Stanisic's extradition
was postponed due to an emergency operation. After the operation he
was returned to the Belgrade District central prison.
Simatovic and Stanisic are accused of crimes against humanity and
war crimes committed in the wars in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
In the indictment against Slobodan Milosevic, the two are described
as participants in "a criminal enterprise" aimed at expelling the
non-Serb population from large areas of Croatia's and Bosnia-
Herzegovina's territory and annexing those areas to a new, Serb-
dominated state.
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