Ratko Mladic's lawyers are asking a judge to release the 84-year-old war criminal from jail, claiming he is close to death. Mladic was sentenced to life imprisonment for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity committed during the Bosnian war from 1992 to 1995. The former military commander was convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. His legal team has not disclosed specific medical details supporting the request, though age and health concerns typically form the basis of such appeals in international courts. Mladic's case remains one of the most prominent from the Balkans conflicts of the 1990s, which killed roughly 100,000 people across multiple republics.