A U.N. war crimes court on Thursday rejected a bid for early release by former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic, known as the "Butcher of Bosnia," who is serving a life sentence for genocide, crimes against humanity and atrocities committed during the 1992-95 Bosnian war, including the Srebrenica massacre.
Mladic is serving a life sentence for his role in the 1992-95 war in Bosnia, and is currently held in the U.N. detention unit in The Hague.
The general filed a motion for early release on humanitarian grounds, the court said last month, because he is in a state of "advanced, irreversible medical decline."
The court in its ruling said that Mladic is indeed in "the final stages of his life", as it called his situation "dire."
But it also said that the conditions at the detention centre ensured his maximum comfort, while the detention itself did not exacerbate the situation.
