A United Nations court has denied Ratko Mladic, known as the "Butcher of Bosnia," early release from his life sentence for genocide and war crimes. The judge ruled that his medical condition did not meet the threshold for immediate release, despite his precarious health.

• Mladic, now in his 80s, was sentenced in 2017 for his role in the siege of Sarajevo and the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, which killed some 8,000 Muslim men and boys.
• The request for release, based on claims he had only a few months to live, was denied by Judge Graciela Gatti Santana at the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals.
• Mladic's lawyers had previously sought provisional release on medical grounds in 2017, and he was arrested in Serbia in 2011 after 16 years on the run.