ICTY prosecutor requests implementing decision on Seselj's return to custody

The Hague, 14 April 2015 (MIA) - Serge Brammertz, chief prosecutor of the Hague war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), requested Tuesday the ICTY Appeals Chamber to urgently set a deadline of one day to the trial chamber in charge of the Vojislav Seselj case to carry out a decision on returning to the tribunal's detention unit the leader of the Serbian Radical Party, charged with war crimes in Croatia and Bosnia/Herzegovina.

Rather than issuing an order and carrying out the decision of the Appeals Chamber of March 30 on Seselj's return to the tribunal's custody, the trial chamber has requested a new report on his condition.

Brammertz said that such a delay in carrying out the Appeals Chamber's clear decision could not be justified, noting that Seselj's condition was irrelevant in the context of implementing the decision, Hina news agency reports. 

The ICTY Appeals Chamber has ruled that Seselj must return to the tribunal's detention unit for stating that he will not return to The Hague of his own accord, which has been interpreted as a violation of the terms of his provisional release.

Seselj was granted a provisional release in November 2014 on account of his poor health.