Ratko Mladic trial: the former Yugoslavia tribunal at a glance The arrest of Goran Hadzic, former president of the self-proclaimed Serbian Republic of Krajina in Croatia signalled the last of the court's defendants behind bars. Only two defendants, Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic are awaiting trial. Hadzic's trial is expected to kick off in October. Sixteen defendants - including Mladic's political alter ego Radovan Karadzic - are currently on trial, while appeals are underway for 17 others already convicted. The trial of Karadzic, who faces the same charges as Mladic, opened in October 2009 and on May 4 this year the prosecution closed its case. Of the 126 defendants against whom procedures have closed, 64 were convicted, 13 acquitted, 13 returned to face justice before national courts and 20 saw the charges against them dropped. Sixteen others died before they could be judged. One of these was the court's highest-profile prisoner, former president Slobodan Milosevic, who was arrested in Belgrade in April 2001. He died in his cell in 2006 in The Hague before the end of his trial which opened on February 12, 2002. The court's maximum sentence is life in jail - pronounced four times since opening its doors. As the ICTY gradually wraps up it work it will be replaced by a so-called Residual Mechanism to take over the ICTY's work. The ad hoc body will come into effect on January 1, 2013 and has a four-year mandate with the option to review its work every two years thereafter. Initially the ICTY's work will overlap with that of the Residual Mechanism, but the UN Security Council requested the ICTY to complete all its outstanding work by the end of 2014.