Milosevic Rushed to HospitalFormer Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was rushed to the hospital late Wednesday after suffering from chest pains in his cell at Belgrade's Central Prison, his lawyer said."There were heart problems that necessitated his transferal to the military hospital in Belgrade," said Milosevic's lawyer, Toma Fila. "It was nothing too dramatic." Fila expected the Belgrade district court to make an announcement about Milosevic's condition Thursday. The transfer came only hours after Milosevic's Socialist Party issued a statement claiming that the former leader's health had been jeopardized by his imprisonment. The former president was being held in a specially refurbished cell pending an investigation into corruption and abuse of power charges. Fila has denied rumors that Milosevic suffers from diabetes. He is, however, known to have high blood pressure. Without going into details about Milosevic's condition, the Socialists demanded their leader be "allowed to defend himself as a free man." The party, citing "bitterness at a media lynching campaign against Milosevic and his family," also urged an end to the "harassment" of the former leader's relatives. Since his dramatic arrest after a two-day standoff with police on April 1, the Socialists have insisted that Milosevic's detention was illegal and demanded a special parliamentary investigation. A Belgrade judge ordered him detained for 30 days pending the investigation. |
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