At a news conference in the eastern city of Osijke, this party's officials reiterated that the there was not any relevant fact that can prove that Glavas did commit crimes he is charged with.
They added that the lawyers for Glavas had submitted an appeal before the Supreme Court asking that their client be released from custody.
On 16 April, the Osijek County Court adopted a decision granting the County Prosecutor's Office's request to extend detention for six suspects in the Sellotape war crimes case and to set detention for independent member of parliament Branimir Glavas. Detention was set for Glavas and extended for the six other suspects due to the gravity of the crime they were charged with, the court said then.
The seven indictees are charged with the murder of 10 persons and one attempted murder in Osijek in 1991.
On 30 April, the County Court again ruled detention for Glavas and extended detention for the six other indictees, after the Supreme Court ordered it to reconsider the decision regarding keeping the indictees in custody.
On 27 the Supreme Court quashed the Osijek County Court's decision of April 16 to set detention for Glavas and extend detention for the six other indictees - Ivica Krnjak, Gordana Getos Magdic, Mirko Sivic, Dino Kontic, Tihomir Valentic, and Zdravko Dragic. The Supreme Court assessed that the appeals lodged by Glavas, Krnjak, Valentic and Dragic were founded, quashed the Osijek County Court's decision and ordered it to make a new one. On that occasion, the Supreme Court rejected Glavas's objection that as an MP he was placed in custody without the parliament's previous decision, saying that enclosed with the case file was a report by the parliamentary Credentials and Privileges Commission approving detention and the launching of criminal proceedings over founded suspicion that he committed war crimes.
During today's news conference, HDSSB parliamentary deputy Ivan Drmic said it was obvious that the Croatian judiciary was under the political sway from the fact that a score of war crimes indictees of the Serb origin were allowed to defend themselves in freedom and that this was tolerated as "the politics has decided so".
"The indictment against General Rahim Ademi is graver than Glavas's indictment. However, the former is allowed to defend himself in freedom," Drmic said.