URGENT ALERT FROM SLOBODA

MEDICAL MISTREATMENT OF PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC

Belgrade, March 24, 2003

On the basis of information that has been reached us today, we state:

Slobodan Milosevic is being given a medication against the high blood pressure called Labetalol (belonging to the class of beta-blockers) which is producing in his case dazedness and insomnia.

Until yesterday President Milosevic has not been informed about these possible side effects of the medication.

Dazedness as a side effect forces him to invest additional efforts and strength to be able to fulfill his hard schedule. And insomnia as another side effect caused by the medication is making for him necessary minimum of rest impossible.

It is becoming obvious that at The Hague we don’t even deal any more with a faked trial, but with the simple torture.

If one takes into account the everyday fiasco of the fake indictment and of the fake witnesses – the motives for such a mistreatment become clear.

These are the facts we know, but we can only guess what other means they use to disable President Milosevic.

At the same time, the Trial Chamber persistently denies to President Milosevic both opportunity to recover and time to get properly prepared for the process. And everyone knows that he has no intention to escape, but a strongest determination to defeat and expose the crime against Yugoslavia and Serbian people.

SLOBODA/Freedom Association feels obliged to inform the Yugoslav and international public about this criminal mistreatment.

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  International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia