REFUSED A BAIL:
Silajdzic´s office voiced ?disbelief regarding the decision and moves of British authorities since the beginning of the case?.

SARAJEVO - Bosnian Muslim leader Haris Silajdzic on Thursday voiced disappointment that a British court had denied bail for former Bosnian leader Ejup Ganic following his arrest in London on a war crimes warrant. A British judge refused to free Ganic on Wednesday saying the risk that he would run away was too high. Ganic is to appear in court next Tuesday. Silajdzic's office voiced "disbelief regarding the decision and moves of British authorities since the beginning of the case". It said in a statement that the Bosnian ambassador to Britain, Ganic's lawyers and family have not been allowed to visit him. "Due to this open violation of laws and international obligations since his arrest Ganic is in a complete isolation and has no information about his case," said Silajdzic, the Muslim member of Bosnia's joint presidency.

The judge at the London court rejected an offer by a British academic with whom Ganic has worked to stand 25,000 pounds (27,000 euros, 38,000 dollars) bail for him after his arrest at London Heathrow airport on Monday. Ganic, a Muslim member of Bosnia's presidency during the 1992-1995 war and former president of Bosnia's Muslim-Croat entity, is facing a Serbian extradition request over the killing of 18 soldiers and officers in an attack on a Yugoslav army convoy in May 1992. The 63-year-old is being held in Wandsworth prison in London.

Bosnian prosecutors also want Britain to extradite him, saying he should be tried in Bosnian rather than Serbia. Bosnia's 1992-1995 war between its Croats, Muslims and Serbs claimed some 100,000 lives. Revealing the deep ethnic divide in the country, Bosnian Serb Prime Minister Milorad Dodik praised the British court. "It is about a concrete participation in the crime which should be seen from the judicial point of view, and not, as Sarajevo does it, politicizing it in full," Serbia's Tanjug news agency quoted Dodik as saying.

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