Glavas began the hunger strike after he was admitted to the detention centre of the Zagreb prison 'Remetinec' on 26 October on suspicion that he committed war crimes against Serbs in Osijek in late 1991.
Dr. Milorad Miskovic, Bosko Bogojevic and Bosko Jancic held a news conference in Osijek today, calling on Glavas to stop the hunger strike so that he could "defend himself with arguments and the truth in the monstrous, politically-motivated proceedings".
The three men said that they had never seen Glavas show any negative attitude towards Serbs or other ethnic groups.
According to their statements, the fashion in which the Glavas case is being conducted is detrimental to the ecumenical and human dialogue which has successfully taken root in Osijek and Osijek-Baranja County.
Doctor Miskovic described how Glavas had protected his family and father, local Orthodox priest Lazar Miskovic, and many other Serbs in the city.
Businessman Bosko Bogojevic described how Glavas had helped him in the most critical times.
Bogojevic said he was convinced that Glavas would win his battle and was sorry to see him being defamed and found guilty in advance in "this monstrous, politically-motivated process".
Bosko Jancic, who was the director of the agribusiness "Belje" during the Serb rebellion in the early 1990s and Osijek County Deputy Prefect upon the peaceful reintegration of Croatia's parts of the Danube River region, said that during his detention in 2001, when he was charged with war crimes, Glavas had told him that he knew that the charges were not true and helped him to be released.
"Branimir Glavas and I worked together on the rebuilding of confidence in Baranja and I know how he acted in those hard times," Jancic said.