Amsterdam - The former Yugoslav president, Mr Slobodan Milosevic, who is awaiting trial at a UN tribunal for war crimes, will ask a Dutch court to rule on whether his arrest in Yugoslavia was legal, a laywer advising him said yesterday. The Canadian lawyer, Mr Christopher Black, said legal action will be launched in a Dutch court "to contest the legality of Milosevic's arrest in Yugoslavia and the legality of his detention in the UN war crimes tribunal detention unit here in the Netherlands."
Mr Black told a news conference in Amsterdam that the procedure would be filed in a few weeks. Mr Milosevic has been charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity in connection with the 1998-1999 Serbian crackdown on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
