A request made by the former Bosnian Serb Army General Ratko Mladic for the medical staff of the UN Detention Unit to be punished because they caused his health to deteriorate was rejected on Tuesday for the second time.

Mladic’s defence team claims the jail’s medical team disrespected the court but the mechanism tasked with completing the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) rejected his first bid in May, citing lack of evidence.

The defense team requested a review of the decision but the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (UNMICT) rejected the request again.

“Mladic's submissions regarding “newly obtained facts” do not demonstrate circumstances justifying reconsideration in order to avoid injustice” and he “has failed to justify his request for reconsideration of the Impugned Decision,” the new UNMICT decision said, according to BIRN.

The Court sentenced Mladic to life in prison in November last year for war crimes committed during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia, including the Srebrenica genocide, the expulsion of Bosniaks and Croats throughout the country, terrorizing the citizens of Sarajevo during the capital's wartime siege and taking UNPROFOR officers hostage.

He was arrested in 2011 in Serbia. His lawyers have several times requested his release, the delay of the verdict and the medical staff to be punished, always citing his bad health and the need for him to be hospitalized.