Captured Mladic in Serbian court
BELGRADE. May 27. KAZINFORM Ratko Mladic has appeared in a Serbian court hours after being arrested following 16 years on the run; Kazinform refers to BBC News.
Authorities want to extradite the former Bosnian Serb army chief to the war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
He faces accusations including a genocide charge over the killing of about 7,500 Bosnian Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995.
The hearing was halted pending a medical examination, his lawyers said. Court officials believe he will appeal.
The whole process is expected to take a week.
Following the arrest of Radovan Karadzic in 2008, Gen Mladic became the most prominent Bosnian war crimes suspect at large.
Serbia had been under intense international pressure to arrest him and send him to the UN International Criminal Tribunal to the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.
Serbian TV showed footage of Gen Mladic wearing a baseball cap and walking slowly as he appeared in court in Belgrade.
His lawyer, Milos Saljic, told reporters the judge had attempted to question Gen Mladic but the suspect was in a "difficult psychological and physical condition", and was unable to communicate.
The hearing is expected to be resumed on Friday, reports say; Kazinform cites BBC News.
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