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OHR allows return of documents to Karadzic's family

OHR

30 July 2008  The High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina has allowed the return of documents to Radovan Karadzic's family.

Just hours after Radovan Karadzic was transfered to International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia custody, Miroslav Lajcak, High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, OHR, decided to return documents to his family.

Fallowing "consultations with relevant international and domestic partners and institutions" Lajcak repealed his orders from January 9, this year, to seize documents from Ljiljana Zelen Karadzic, wife, son Sasa, daughter Sonja and son-in-law Branislav Jovicevic considering them a part of a network that allowed Radovan Karadzic to remain at large. They will have their identification and travel documents returned.

"The High Representative has concluded that the reasons for the seizure of the travel documents of the above mentioned four individuals no longer apply. This decision shall have immediate effect. This decision made by the High Representative today does not prejudice any ongoing or future investigation against these four individuals, or the right of the High Representative to take any future action against any individual should they again obstruct, or threaten to obstruct the implementation of the General Framework Agreement for Peace," states the official announcement from the OHR.

The same decision says that "restrictions against other persons remain in effect."

OHR seized documents from 59 persons together with the Karadzic family. All of them are suspected of being connected to the network of supporters that allows Hague fugitives to stay at large. The State prosecution in Bosnia is currently checking 100 people suspected of being linked to this network.

Radovan Karazic was transfered to the Hague in the early morning July 30 after he was arrested in Belgrade on July 21.

After his arrest, and during the nine days he spent in detention in Belgrade, his family sent a request to the OHR to have back their documents in order to be able to visit him. Their request was supported by Milorad Dodik, the Prime Minister of Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity, Republika Srpska.

Sonja Jovicevic Karadzic told media that was the only chance for the family to see Radovan, since they cannot "afford" to go the Hague.

The European Union issued in 2003 a so-called "black list" of 44 people who are forbidden to enter any member countries. All the people from the list are considered to be part of the network that help Hague fugitives. On the list are the names of the whole Karadzic family.