Former Bosnian president Ejup Ganic will remain in jail in London while his application for bail is considered. Ganic was arrested at Heathrow Airport on March 1st at the request of Serbia, where he is wanted on war crimes charges.

A Muslim member of Bosnia’s presidency during the 1992-1995 war and former president of the Muslim-Croat Federation of Bosnia and Hercegovina, Ganic is being held in Wandsworth prison in south London.

His application for bail was postponed at the High Court on Friday. The judges adjourned a ruling until this Thursday to give the Crown Prosecution Service more time to gather material supporting its case that he should be detained pending extradition proceedings. Serb authorities say Ganic is responsible for the deaths of 18 soldiers and officers in an attack on a Yugoslav army convoy in May 1992.

Serbia claims more than 40 soldiers were killed in the so-called Dobrovoljacka Street attack, after Bosnia had declared independence from the Serb-led former Yugoslavia. Bosnian prosecutors have said they will also ask Britain to extradite him, saying their country has an agreement with Serbia to try all war crimes suspects domestically.

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