MOSCOW. Dec 4 (Interfax) - The sentence given to the former Bosnian Serb commander Gen. Ratko Mladic will be appealed in 2018, the general's lawyer Dragan Ivetic told reporters in a video link.
"We will file the appeal next year. The appeal will be drafted with the utmost expertise. It is our goal to ensure that justice is brought and the general is acquitted. There is some evidence we have not been allowed to present but which can clear him of the charges," Ivetic said.
In November, the Hague Tribunal (the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia) found Mladic guilty of ten out of 11 charges, including the 1995 genocide of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica and a breach of war customs and laws in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992-1995. Mladic was given life in prison. The general's son, Darko Mladic, said the defense would appeal the sentence.
The defense has 45 days to file the appeal.