Martin Petrov, chief of the UN court's registrar's office, said Mladic "is now following the standard detention regime" for all suspects held in the cell block, which is housed inside a regular Dutch jail close to the North Sea coast. That means being locked every night into a one-man, cell equipped with a computer - without Internet access - and a television that can air broadcasts from the former Yugoslavia.

During the day his cell is unlocked, allowing him to mingle with other inmates in his wing of the detention unit, cook meals, exercise and take classes in English and computing. Mladic is charged with genocide and other offenses for orchestrating atrocities committed by Serb forces throughout the 1992-95 Bosnian war. He faces a maximum life sentence if convicted.