In the suit, published on his web site, Glavas through his attorneys proposed that the court order on his detention in the Sellotape case be revoked. Glavas and six other indictees are charged with the killing of civilians on the Drava River banks in the eastern Croatian city of Osijek in 1991. The case has been dubbed as the Sellotape case.
Glavas believes that as a parliamentary deputy he should not have been detained after the indictment was issued. Glavas believes that parliament should have voted on stripping him of his parliamentary immunity first, given that the last parliamentary decision on stripping him of immunity had been made during the investigating procedure and was not universal.
He said the court ruling on his detention violated the regulations of the fundamental freedom rights and requested that the rulings by the Osijek County Court ruling, dated 30 April, and the Supreme Court, dated 11 May, be quashed and that he be instantly released.
On 16 April, the Osijek County Court issued an indictment against Glavas and the other six indictees in the Sellotape case. On 17 April, Glavas was placed in custody, and the detention of the other indictees who were already in custody was extended. They were detained due to the gravity of crimes.
The prosecution charges Glavas and six other indictees with unlawful arrest, torture and killing of Serb civilians and civilians of other ethnic origins in Osijek in 1991 while the eastern Croatian city was exposed to the aggression of the Yugoslav People's Army and Serb paramilitaries.
On 30 April, the Osijek County Court again decided on detention for Glavas and the six other indictees - Ivica Krnjak, Gordana Getos Magdic, Mirko Sivic, Dino Kontic, Tihomir Valentic, and Zdravko Dragic - after the Supreme Court quashed the first ruling of the lower-instance court and ordered it to again consider a decision on the detention of the said indictees.
Glavas was taken into custody in Zagreb in the late autumn of 2006 during an investigation into another war crimes case, the so-called Garage case, before the Zagreb County Court, initially over his possible tampering with witnesses and later on grounds of the gravity of the crimes he was suspected of. He then went on huger strike, as a result of which his health deteriorated. He was released from custody in early December, but placed back into custody after his condition improved..