The UN, the British Government and the British prison on the Isle of Wight did not respond to media agency SRNA’s question whether they would use their authority and demand respect for the human rights of the first president of Republika Srpska, Radovan Karadžić, who was convicted at the Hague Tribunal and serving prison sentence in Great Britain.

The only response that came from the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Courts was that they did not want to comment on the fact that Karadžić’s human rights were threatened in prison on the British Isle of Wight.

“Thank you for your question. The mechanism has no comment,” SRNA got response from this judicial institution, which succeeded the Hague Tribunal.

SRNA addressed this question 11 days ago to UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, the Hague Mechanism, the British government and the prison on the Isle of Wight.

Lawyer Goran Petronijević assessed today for SRNA that the Ministry of Justice of Great Britain and the prison authorities there treated the former president of Republika Srpska, Radovan Karadžić, as a captive, not as a prisoner.

After the British Embassy in Bosnia and Herzegovina told BIRN yesterday that Karadžić had no worse conditions than other prisoners, Petronijević assessed that the thesis of the British Embassy in Sarajevo had “nothing to do with the brain”.

“I see that it was reported by BIRN, which is known for its biasness in reporting in relation to all the problems that are happening to Serbs in The Hague,” said Petronijević.

Previously, the Serb member of the BiH Presidency, Milorad Dodik, asked the president of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Courts, Graciela Gatti Santana, to intervene within her competences with the Government of Great Britain to immediately take the necessary measures to stop the prison terror upon the Hague convict Radovan Karadžić, who is serving a life sentence on the British Isle of Wight.

A group of intellectuals from Serbia and Republika Srpska sent an open letter to UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, because of the inhumane treatment of Karadžić, who is serving his sentence in prison on the British Isle of Wight.

In the letter that points out that Karadžić is denied even the rights he had in the prison unit in the Hague, they claim that in Karadžić’s case there is a possibility of his tragic outcome and demand that the decision to serve his sentence in England is revoked.