Ejup Ganic to Appear in Court on Friday
04 March 2010 Ejup Ganic will be questioned before a British High Court on Friday, March 5 - his daughter Emina Ganic told Justice Report.
"We finally managed to see him this morning. He was not able to contact anybody for the past three days. Tomorrow morning, at 10.00, a new hearing is scheduled before the British High Court. We shall try to finally get him out of the illegal custody in which he is currently held. We hope we will finally be able to see some logic in this whole system," Emina Ganic said.
Ejup Ganic was briefly held at London Airport on February 26, 2010. In a statement, the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office said he was arrested on March 1 "on the basis of a preliminary request by Serbian authorities".
Serbia has asked for Ganic's extradition on suspicion that he participated, in May 1992, in an attack on a Yugoslav National Army, JNA, convoy in Dobrovoljacka Street in Sarajevo.
The Westminster Court rejected a motion to release Ejup Ganic from custody, with £ 200,000 offered as bail.
"Our worst suspicions pertaining to his treatment inside the detention unit are now confirmed. However, my father feels good. He feels strong and absolutely capable of dealing with this. He was not allowed to keep any personal belongings with him, not even a pen and a piece of paper. He managed to get a pen from another detainee and he used some papers he had with him and started writing his defence on the back of the paper, as well as some instructions for other people, when he finally gets a chance to see someone," Emina Ganic said.
Ganic added that her father was "fully ready for everything he is facing now", and that he was "deeply touched by the support" he has received from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
"He is fully confident and more than capable of dealing with this. He has self-confidence and he trusts this will end up the way it should. The emotions that break out are great pride and a sort of rage, but of a proactive kind. He is now considering the next steps he has to take," Emina Ganic said.
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