Ganic Has Still Not Seen His Attorneys
05 March 2010 Four days after his arrest Ejup Ganic has not met his attorneys. Damir Arnaut, Counselor of the Bosniak member of the Bosnian Presidency told Justice Report that Ganic would be allowed to see his attorneys on Monday, March 8.
"Ejup Ganic has still not met his attorneys, because (the British authorities) claim their prison system is overloaded and many attorneys have filed requests to meet clients. The earliest possibility for the meeting is on Monday," Arnaut said.
Arnaut explained that at the hearing held before the British High Court on March 5 Ganic's legal advisors had requested his release from custody, because Serbia has not submitted documents on the basis of which it requested his arrest and extradition.
"We used this fact as an argument in court today. Serbia has not used the chance and Ejup Ganic should not pay for that. (...) I consider that there is no evidence against him, but it is possible that some things will be made up and piles of documents sent to the Court. This is why we asked for all those documents to be copied to us, two days prior to their submission to the Court," Arnaut said.
The British High Court postponed a decision pertaining to the request for Ejup Ganic's release from custody until Thursday, March 11, as it would like to wait for Serbia to submit evidence on the basis of which it suspects that he committed war crimes.
Ganic was arrested in London on March 1, 2010, on the basis of "a preliminary request by Serbian authorities". He was ordered into custody that can last until March 29. Serbian judicial authorities suspect that the member of the wartime Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina participated in an attack on a Yugoslav National Army, JNA, convoy in Dobrovoljacka Street in Sarajevo in May 1992.
Three days after his arrest, Ganic was visited in the detention unit by Jadranka Negodic, Bosnian Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Damir Arnaut and his children Emina and Emir Ganic.
Ganic's legal advisors previously filed a custody release motion, offering £ 200,000 as bail, but the Lower Court in London rejected the motion, on the grounds that "a person cannot be released on bail if he or she is suspected of a grave crime".
"At the hearing held today we could see the High Court did not consider this was relevant," Arnaut said.
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