MLADIC TO FACE TRIBUNAL FRIDAY official

STORY: MLADIC TO FACE TRIBUNAL FRIDAY DATELINE: June 2, 2011 LENGTH: 0:01:27 LOCATION: Hague VOSOT The former Bosnian Serb army chief Radko Mladic will appear in court at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia later this week. Mladic faces charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes during the bloody Bosnian war in the 1990s. The 69-year-old Mladic is to appear Friday before a three-judge bench at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. Court officials say, Mladic, who was brought to the Netherlands on Tuesday, is in custody in the UN detention unit in Scheveningen. Officials say Mladic, reportedly in bad health, is given all the medical support he needs and a team of doctors and nurses is to his disposal 24 hours a day. The career solider is now housed in a private cell and is allowed to phone family and friends daily and have conjugal visits. Mladic was arrested in Serbia last Thursday after Powered by www.newslook.com Producer : Xinhua News Agency