PALE, Bosnia-Herzegovina-Radovan Karadzic's daughter urged her father's supporters Wednesday to do their utmost to help him defend himself against war crimes charges and expressed hope the family would be allowed to visit him in The Hague.

In an interview with the Associated Press Television News, Sonja Karadzic-Jovicevic appealed to "all good and honorable people to in any way they can help my father's defense", including authorities in the Bosnian Serb ministate, Republika Srpska, and in Serbia.

She said she hoped his trial would be fair and added the most important thing now for the family was to "see him and talk to him."

Karadzic called home and spoke to her mother in Pale shortly after he arrived Wednesday morning at the U.N. war crimes jail in The Hague, she said, without elaborating further.

Karadzic's family was not allowed to visit him while he was detained for a week in Belgrade due to a travel ban that Bosnia's international administrator, Miroslav Lajcak, imposed on them in January. Local police had seized their travel documents, since the family was believed to be part of support network that helped the war crimes suspect elude capture for nearly 13 years.

Despite the family's request, Lajcak refused to lift his travel ban until after Karadzic arrived in The Hague.

Although police returned the seized documents to Karadzic's family on Wednesday, the family still won't be able to travel to Netherlands.

In 2003, the European Union imposed a visa ban on Karadzic's wife, Ljiljana Zelen-Karadzic, and son Aleksandar. Last Thursday, three days after Karadzic was arrested, the Council of Europe extended the visa ban to the entire Karadzic family, including daughter Sonja and brother Luka.

The Council called on member states to prevent the Karadzics and others, 36 people in all, from entering or passing though their countries, saying they are either helping fugitives evade justice or are "acting in a manner which could obstruct" the work of the U.N. war crimes court.

Karadzic faces 11 charges, including genocide, for allegedly masterminding atrocities during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, including the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian city of Srebrenica.