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Hodzic: Additional medical reports required

05 September 2008  Indictee Ferid Hodzic must provide additional medical reports, which will be reviewed by court experts prior to determining whether he is capable of following the trial.

At the status conference the State Court decided that indictee Ferid Hodzic should see a doctor, who will determine whether a coronography test can be obtained. According to experts, the results of that test are necessary in order to determine whether the indictee is capable of following the further course of the trial. 

Ferid Hodzic is tried for crime against Serbian civilians and prisoners of war, who were detained in "Stala" ("Stable") detention camp in Rovasi village, Vlasenica municipality. The Prosecution of Bosnia and Herzegovina considers that the indictee was commander of the Territorial Defence, TD, in Vlasenica in the period from May 1992 to January 26, 1996, when the prisoners were held in the detention camp.

"After having reviewed the available medical documents pertaining to the indictee, court expert Radojka Golijanin determined that he had to undergo a coronagraphic and psychiatric test, in order to determine whether he is capable of attending the trial," Trial Chamber Chairman Tihomir Lukes said. 

As explained by Lukes, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina rendered a decision ordering a neurological examination to be conducted. The indictee is supposed to see a neurologist on September 9. Besides that the indictee was ordered to consider undergoing a coronography, "with the doctors' consent". 

Hodzic's Defence said that its client's family doctors told him that coronography "could endanger his life", bearing in mind that he had had a heart attack. 

Hodzic had a heart attack in early June 2008. He was admitted to a hospital in Tuzla. After some time he was released from the hospital and allowed to take his treatment at home.

"The doctor, who takes care of the indictee's health, did not have a radical stand concerning the coronography test. He considers that this examination should be conducted," Defence attorney Asim Crnalic said, adding that his client would undergo the examination as soon as possible. 

The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina ordered him to undergo the coronography within the next eight days, if his doctors determine that the indictee is capable of doing it.

The trial was postponed on several occasions due to the indictee's health. 

As per the official timetable, the trial is due to continue on September 22. By this date the indictee is supposed to undergo the coronography test, which would enable the court experts to assess whether he is capable of following the trial.