trial. It was decided that he needed a longer period of recovery. Main hearings The main hearings of the trial began on 16 May 2012. Prosecutors had 200 hours in which to make their case, presenting evidence from more than 400 witnesses, the first of whom was due to testify on 29 May. Most of the witness evidence was to be submitted in the form of written statements. Mladić refused to enter a plea to any of the charges against him. On 17 May, the trial was adjourned indefinitely by the presiding judge due to prosecution "errors". It was reported that the prosecutor failed to disclose all of their facts to the defence. The prosecutor admitted the errors and the lawyer of Mladić asked for a six-month delay. The judge, Alphons Orie, said that the errors were still being analysed and wanted to continue the trial as soon as possible. On 10 April 2013, one of the survivors testified about the July 1995 massacre of almost 8,000 men and boys in Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia. Mladić was removed from the courtroom after muttering during the testimony. Prosecutors said that the Srebrenica testimony was expected to last several months. Mladić refused to testify at the trial of his superior, Radovan Karadžić, despite a subpoena from the ICC as he called the court "satanic" and added that "I do not want to testify and refuse to testify for reasons of my health and that it would prejudice my own case." Verdict The court's verdicts were made on 22 November 2017. Mladić's lawyers attempted to delay proceedings, arguing that Mladić's blood pressure was too high to continue, but this was dismissed by the judges. Mladić could then be heard shouting obscenities, court calling the court liars and ((referring to NATO) "You (sic) make wars all around the world" . Following this, Mladic was removed from the courtroom. In his absence, the verdicts were read out. Mladić was found guilty of 10 of the 11 charges, being acquitted of the charge of genocide in 1992 (the first item on the list above). He was sentenced to life imprisonment. Mladić has the right to an appeal of the judgement, which would be heard by the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (MITC). Current practice is for prisoners to be eligible for (but not entitled to) release after serving two-thirds of the life sentence (45 years)