ICTY Denies Reports on Mladic's Hernia Surgery

"I can confirm that he [Ratko Mladic] has not left the prison complex in Scheveningen," Jelacic said.

In accordance with the rules of the Tribunal, she could not however reveal the details on the health of any of the detainees unless the accused himself permits for such information to be made public.

"I can only reiterate that the Tribunal Secretariat provides the best possible health care and medical treatment when necessary to all the accused," Jelacic explained.

This comes after Serbian media reported that top genocide suspect and Bosnian Serb ex-army chief underwent hernia surgery in a Dutch hospital on Wednesday.

"The surgery went well and Mladic felt good when he called his wife on Wednesday evening after the surgery," Mladic's lawyer Milos Saljic told Balkan Insight.

Mladic, a former Commander of the Main Headquarters of the Republika Srpska Army, VRS, was arrested in Serbia on May 26 after more than 16 years on the run. He is charged with genocide, crimes against humanity and other violations of the laws and customs of the 1992-95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The 11-count indictment names, among other atrocities, the genocide committed in 1992 in seven municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the July 1995 massacre in Srebrenica.

Prosecutors have also charged Mladic with crimes against the non-Serb population in 20 municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, taking UN personnel as hostages and participating in the shelling and sniping campaign of Sarajevo which killed several hundred men, women and children.

He was transferred to The Hague Detention Unit on May 31.