THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, June 11 (Hina) - A former head of the Serbian State Security Service (SDB), Jovica Stanisic, one of the closest associates of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, was extradited to the Hague's international
war crimes tribunal (ICTY) Wednesday and placed at Scheveningen prison, the tribunal reported.
THE HAGUE/ZAGREB, June 11 (Hina) - A former head of the Serbian
State Security Service (SDB), Jovica Stanisic, one of the closest
associates of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, was
extradited to the Hague's international war crimes tribunal (ICTY)
Wednesday and placed at Scheveningen prison, the tribunal
reported. #L#
"The ICTY confirms that Stanisic was transferred to the Detention
Unit," the tribunal says on its web site.
Stanisic has been indicted by the ICTY for crimes against humanity
and the violation of laws and customs of war in Croatia and Bosnia,
along with a former SDB commissioner, Franko Simatovic aka Frenki,
who has been in detention since May 30.
Stanisic's extradition to The Hague had been delayed because he had
undergone surgery in Belgrade. He had requested his urgent
transferral to Scheveningen, since he had been refused house care
after surgery.
During preparations for aggression on Croatia and Bosnia in 1990
and 1991, the then Serbian President Milosevic had turned the
Serbian interior ministry into the chief military stronghold of his
regime, in which the SDB, headed by Stanicic, played the leading
role.
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