Mladic fit for trial
A judge ruled yesterday that Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, the alleged mastermind of the Srebrenica massacre and other atrocities, was fit to face international justice at a war crimes court.
Court spokeswoman Maja Kovacevic said the transfer conditions had been met.
Gen Mladic's legal team says he is in poor health and that they will appeal on Monday. They have requested that he be admitted to hospital over concerns about his health.
Gen Mladic, arrested on Thursday after 16 years on the run, faces genocide charges over the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
He was indicted in 1995 over the killings about 7,500 Bosnian Muslim men and boys that July at Srebrenica -- the worst single atrocity in Europe since World War II -- and other crimes.
Judge Kovacevic told reporters outside the court that Gen Mladic's health was good enough for him to stand trial.
"It has been certified that Ratko Mladic is healthy enough to take part in that [extradition], because all medical examinations have been carried out and we got an assessment that he's capable, despite the fact that he suffers from a number of chronic conditions."
She added that he had "refused to accept the indictment".
Defence lawyer Milos Saljic said an appeal would be submitted on Monday. The BBC's Mark Lowen, outside the court, says this makes it unlikely he would leave Serbia before Tuesday.
Gen Mladic's wife Bosiljka and their son Darko turned up at the court to visit him.
Our correspondent says Mrs Mladic only recently said she thought her husband was dead.
Speaking to reporters earlier -- a day after his father was arrested at the end of a 16-year manhunt -- his son Darko Mladic insisted he was not guilty and not healthy enough to be transferred, reports AFP.
"His position is that he is not guilty of what he is accused of," Darko Mladic told reporters after meeting with his father inside the Serbian court building.
"I am not a doctor but my opinion is that he is not fit at the moment," he said when asked if he thought his father could be transferred to The Hague.
Having lived freely in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, Gen Mladic is believed to have gone into hiding after the arrest of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in 2001.
Following the detention of former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic in 2008, Gen Mladic became the most prominent Bosnian war crimes suspect at large.
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