Mladic completes jail medical tests

Thursday 16 June 2011 00:00 BST

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Ratko Mladic has been transferred to a regular cell at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal's detention unit after completing medical tests.

A spokesman said the former Bosnian Serb army chief "is following the standard detention regime" at the jail in The Hague. That means being locked every night into a one-man cell, equipped with a computer – without internet access – and a television which airs broadcasts from the former Yugoslavia.

His Belgrade lawyer said after his arrest last month that he suffered two strokes during 16 years as a fugitive from justice.

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