The rally was first staged outside the Austrian embassy in the Bosnian capital and then demonstrators walked towards offices housing the Bosnian presidency and the government and the international community's High Representative, to end their march outside the Serbian embassy which was under heavy police security.

Protesters carried banners with messages that Divjak must be immediately set free and that prosecution of people who defended Bosnia must be stopped.

There were no incidents in the rally which also drew prominent people from the Bosnian public life.

Divjak was arrested at the Vienna airport on Thursday evening due to Serbia's accusations that he committed war crimes against retreating Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) troops in Dobrovoljacka Street in Sarajevo on 3 May 1992. While the JNA army, which supported the Serb forces, was keeping the first Bosnian president Alija Izetbegovic hostage, a conflict erupted between the forces that were defending the city and a column of retreating JNA soldiers.

On Friday an Austrian investigating judge set two-week extradition detention for the retired general and that in this period Serbia should forward documentation corroborating its request for the handover of the Bosnian citizen to Belgrade.

In the meantime, the Bosnian prosecutorial authorities, that have already opened an investigation in those alleged war crimes, also sent the request to Vienna for Divjak's handover to Sarajevo.