Sweden frees former Bosnian Serb president Biljana Plavsic
Plavsic is expected to arrive in Belgrade on Tuesday.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague and sentenced Plavsic in February 2003, agreed last month to release in advance, a decision that was opposed by relatives of Bosnian Muslims who were victims of war, but was held by Bosnian Serbs.
Plavsic was moved this morning to ( Airport Stockholm) Arlanda. There he was picked up by a plane, the Swedish Research and Prisons. What happens next depends on it, he said.
Plavsic, 79, was one of the three members of the Presidency of the Republic of Serbia, led by Radovan Karadzic, the Monday boycotted the start of his trial in The Hague where he is tried on 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including genocide in Srebrenica.
Plavsic pleaded guilty to persecution on political, racial and religious to paramilitary invite Serbia to help the Bosnian Serb forces to carry out an ethnic separation by force.
charges of genocide, extermination and murder were dropped.
People convicted in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia did not comply with the sentence in The Hague, but are transferred to prisons outside the Netherlands.
(Reporting by Anna Ringstrom, editing by Madrid Writing, editing by Elizabeth Piper Spanish)