MIP chairman Damir Sesvecan moved and eight of MIP's nine members voted a conclusion to the effect that there is no reason to decide about Glavas's detention again given that detention had been requested for and referred to the same crime for which MIP already approved detention on 23 October 2006.
MIP also adopted a conclusion to the effect that it could not consider the request by Glavas's attorney that parliament re-examine the possibility of deciding on detention again because such a request can be made only by an authorised state body.
Sesvecan said there was no need to adopt decisions in every stage of a court proceeding, adding that the Osijek County Court had agreed with that as it had not asked for parliament's consent before setting detention for Glavas two days ago.
The Croatian Party of Rights member of MIP, Vlado Jukic, was the only one to vote against the conclusion. He and Vladimir Sisljagic, an MP of Glavas's HDSSB party, who is not an MIP member, asked the Commission to enable Glavas to be released pending trial.
They said the MIP's initial decision to approve detention was questionable from a legal and constitutional standpoint as was Glavas's recent detention because no prior decision had been requested from parliament. They added Glavas did not deserve to be in custody because none of the 147 witnesses heard in the investigation had accused him.
Sisljagic said Glavas was being prosecuted on the basis of the deposition of Gordana Getos-Magdic, who he said had given it under police pressure, subsequently recanting.
Jukic said he suspected that Glavas was placed in custody so that he could not take part in parliamentary elections this year.
The other MIP members called on them not to impose on the Commission the responsibility for Glavas's detention.
The chairman of the Constitution and Standing Orders Committee, Drazen Bosnjakovic, told the press the Committee had decided there was no need to decide on Glavas's detention anew and that it was not within the Committee's competence to address the issue of whether the MIP's initial consent to detention had been in accordance with the Constitution.
Independent MP Glavas and six other suspects were indicted earlier this week in the so-called Sellotape war crimes case, which concerns the murder of civilians on the banks of the Drava River in eastern Croatia in 1991.
Glavas was placed in custody in the eastern city of Osijek last night.