The Region - News from March 27, 1985

The living conditions for accused Nazi war criminal Andrija Artukovic in a U.S. Bureau of Prisons hospital at Springfield, Mo., will be investigated by Amnesty International, according to an official of Americans for Due Process. Rasa Razgaitis, coordinator for the group, said the conditions under which the World War II Croatian minister of the interior is being held “sound kind of gruesome.” Artukovic’s son, Rad, said his 85-year-old father is being kept in virtual isolation and, when visited last week, his clothes were dirty and he had not been bathed or shaved. A hospital spokesman said he could not discuss the case without signed permission from the prisoner, who refuses to give it. Artukovic, a resident of Surfside Colony in Orange County, is accused by the Yugoslav government of involvement in the killing of 750,000 Serbs, Jews and Gypsies. He has been ordered extradited to that country to face a single charge of murder.