Lawyers for War Criminal Mladić Request Early Release, Claiming He Is Near Death
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Defense lawyers for Ratko Mladić, the former Bosnian Serb military commander convicted of genocide and war crimes, have filed a request for his early release from prison. The legal team argues that Mladić is at the end of his life and should be freed on compassionate grounds. This marks the second consecutive year that his defenders have submitted such an appeal to international judicial authorities. Mladić was sentenced to life imprisonment by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for his role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and the siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War in the 1990s.