LOS ANGELES, March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Entrepreneur and human rights activist Diana Jenkins today made the following statement regarding her posting bail for former Bosnian vice president Ejup Ganic:

"I was furious when I heard Dr. Ganic had been arrested, and knew I had to help him – even though we have never met. The Serbian accusations against him are part of a shameless political campaign to whitewash what really happened in Bosnia. Serbs murdered thousands of Bosnians, my brother among them. In the face of genocide, men like Dr. Ganic defended the innocents against true war criminals such as Radovan Karadzic and Slobodan Milosevic. For him to be jailed on charges that prosecutors in The Hague long ago reviewed and dismissed was a disgrace. Now he can fight these ridiculous accusations as a free man."

Dr. Ganic was arrested March 1 at Heathrow Airport on an extradition request from Serbia and was being held on $450,000 bail. Dr. Ganic was vice president of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. Educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he is president of the Sarajevo School of Science and Technology. Dr. Ganic was in England for a graduation ceremony at Buckingham University, which partners with the Sarajevo School of Science and Technology.

Diana Jenkins is the founder and president of Neuro Brands, a Santa Monica-based maker of all-natural functional beverages. Born in Sarajevo, she fled as a refugee to London during the Bosnian War. She founded the Sanela Diana Jenkins Foundation, which is the largest organization dedicated to rebuilding Bosnia and Herzegovina, and established the Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Project at UCLA, which is committed to bringing war criminals to justice.

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