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ICTY Weekly Press Briefing
Date: 17.01.2007
Time: 12:00
Registry and Chambers:
Refik Hodžić, Spokesman for Registry and Chambers, made the following statement:
In the Zelenović case, the Prosecution and Defence filed on 14 December 2006 a confidential joint motion for consideration of a plea agreement. The confidentiality was lifted yesterday in a motion hearing. The hearing continued this morning and Zelenović pleaded guilty to all seven counts as agreed upon in the joint submission, three counts involving torture and four counts involving rape. The Prosecution recommended that the Trial Chamber impose a prison term within the range of 10 to 15 years and the Defence recommended a term of seven to 10 years.
When Zelenović receives his sentence, the so called "Foča rape case" will be concluded before the Tribunal. The initial indictment charged eight persons for crimes against humanity, grave breaches of Geneva Conventions and violations of laws and customs of war in relation a to a campaign of systematic rape of Bosnian Muslim women in the eastern Bosnian town of Foča. In February 2001, Dragoljub Kunarac, Zoran Vuković and Radomir Kovač were convicted in a landmark judgement for rape as crime against humanity. In September and December 2005, Radovan Stanković and Gojko Janković were transferred to Bosnia. Radovan Stanković was sentenced to 16 years’ imprisonment by the Trial Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Gojko Janković is currently on trial. Dragan Gagović and Janko Janjić died during arrest attempts.
SCHEDULE:
Apart from the ongoing trials, Milutinovć et al, Prlić et al, Popović et al and Milosević will all continue sitting this and next week. A status conference is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon in the Mićo Stanišić case. The Mrkšić et al. case rebuttal hearings which were scheduled for this week have been postponed due to witness unavailability.
FILINGS:
On Friday 12 January, The Trial Chamber filed its decision granting the prosecutions motion to amend the amended indictment in the Haradinaj et al case. Also in the case, orders were filed reassigning the case to Trial Chamber I, appointing ad-litem Judges Höpfel and Støle to the case and appointing Judge Orie as pre-trial Judge.
OUTREACH:
I am very pleased to announce that the ICTY web unit has refreshed and redesigned the Albanian ICTY website and launched these changes earlier this week. The website now includes many of the features found on the English, French and BCS websites – the key figures, ICTY cases and judgements for those cases which deal with Kosovo, Basic Legal Documents, information about the ICTY, latest developments, ICTY at a Glance and a page on the ICTY Detention Unit with photos and the English language video. The launch of the website is the result of a lot of hard work by our web unit and the Priština field office and means that information about the ICTY can now be found in all five languages relevant to the Tribunal’s work. I encourage all media interested in Kosovo-related cases to take a look and use the Albanian website as an additional source of information.
Office of the Prosecutor:
Olga Kavran, Spokesperson for the Office of the Prosecutor, made no statement.
Questions:
Asked if there were any further developments in the Šešelj case, Hodžić said that nothing has changed and that his health condition was normal.
Asked if Judge Orie would be taken off the Šešelj case since he was now appointed as pre-trial Judge in the Haradinaj et al. case, Hodžić said that he could not comment on scheduling issues until an order was filed. Hodžić added that decisions on assignment of cases would be made with the aim of making the most effective use of judges and courtroom space.
Asked if the Tribunal’s website in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian would be updated, Hodžić said that it was updated daily and to expect a complete overhaul of the Tribunal’s website for all five languages in the coming months. This redesigned site would be slightly different in form and updated simultaneously in English, French, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian and Albanian.
Documents:
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Case Description |
Signature
Date |
DocumentTitle |
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Blaskic (Contempt) |
12-Jan-07 |
Prosecution's Notice Of Filing Of Public Version Of Prosecutor's Closing Submissions With Annex A |
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Boskoski et al |
17-Jan-07 |
Decision On Naser Oric's Request For Certification |
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Boskoski et al (Interlocutory) |
15-Jan-07 |
[Decision On Ljube Boskoski's Appeal On Jurisdiction] |
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Boskoski et al (Interlocutory) |
15-Jan-07 |
Ordonnance Portant Désignation De Juges Dans Une Affaire Dont Est Saisie La Chambre D'appel |
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Brdjanin (Appeal) |
15-Jan-07 |
E-Mail From John Ackerman To Helen Brady Of 2 December 2006 |
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Cermak & Markac |
12-Jan-07 |
Attestation |
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Cermak & Markac |
12-Jan-07 |
Certificate |
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Cermak & Markac (Interlocutory) |
12-Jan-07 |
Decision On Appellant Mladen Markac's Motion For Clarification |
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Cermak & Markac (Interlocutory) |
12-Jan-07 |
Decision On Appellant Mladen Markac's Motion For Clarification |
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Gotovina |
12-Jan-07 |
Attestation |
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Gotovina |
12-Jan-07 |
Certificate |
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Gotovina (Interlocutory) |
12-Jan-07 |
Decision On Appellant Mladen Markac's Motion For Clarification |
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Gotovina et Al. (Interlocutory) |
12-Jan-07 |
Décision Relative À La Demande De L'accusation Pour Obtenir Le Rejet De La Requête Aux Fins D'examen Présentée En Appliaction De L'article 108bis Du Règlement |
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Gotovina et Al. (Interlocutory) |
12-Jan-07 |
Corrigendum To Decision On Prosecution's Motion To Strike Request For Review Under Rule 108bis |
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Haradinaj et al |
17-Jan-07 |
Order Assigning Ad Litem Judges For Pre-Trial Work |
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Haradinaj et al |
12-Jan-07 |
Prosecution Submission Of Statement Of Expert Witness Pursuant To Rule 94 Bis |
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Haradinaj et al |
12-Jan-07 |
Decision On Motion To Amend The Amended Indictment |
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Haradinaj et al |
12-Jan-07 |
Submission By The Defence For Idriz Balaj To Request The Chamber To Order Unmik To Lift Rule 70 Constraints Over Certain Documents With Confidential Annexes |
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Haradinaj et al |
16-Jan-07 |
Order Appointing A Pre-Trial Judge |
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Haradinaj et al |
16-Jan-07 |
Report To Trial Chamber On Prosecution's Compliance With Order Of 13 December 2006 |
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Haradinaj et al |
15-Jan-07 |
Order Reassigning A Case To Atrial Chamber |
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Haradinaj et al |
12-Jan-07 |
Submission Of Further Supporting Material For Revised Second Amended Indictment With Confidential Annexes |
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Jankovic G. et al. |
16-Jan-07 |
Joint Submission Of Annex To Plea Agreement |
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Krajisnik (Appeal) |
16-Jan-07 |
Registrar's Submission On Counsel's Request For Review Of The Registrar's Decision On Assignment Of Counsel |
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Milosevic Dragomir |
12-Jan-07 |
Decision On Prosecution Motion For Admission Of Witness Transcripts Pursuant To Rule 92ter Of The Rules Of Procedure And Evidence |
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Milosevic Dragomir |
12-Jan-07 |
Decision On Prosecution Motion For Admission Of Witness Written Statement Pursuant To Rule 92ter Of The Rules Of Procedure And Evidence |
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Milosevic Dragomir |
12-Jan-07 |
Decision Relative A La Modification De L'acte D'accusation Et A L'application De L'article 73bis D) Du Reglement |
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Milutinovic et al. |
15-Jan-07 |
Decision On Renewed Prosecution Motion For Leave To Amend Its Rule 65ter List To Add Michaeil Phillips And Shaun Byrnes |
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Milutinovic et al. |
16-Jan-07 |
Decision On Evidence Tendered Through Major- General Drewienkiewicz |
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Milutinovic et al. |
15-Jan-07 |
Decision On Prosecution Motion For Leave To Amend Its Rule 65ter Witness List To Add Wesley Clark |
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Milutinovic et al. |
16-Jan-07 |
Waiver From Pavkovic For Absence From Court On 16 January 2007 |
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Milutinovic et al. |
12-Jan-07 |
Prosecution Provisional List Of Witnesses For The Month Of February 2007 |
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Perisic |
12-Jan-07 |
Counsel's Request To File Reply To Registry's Submission On Counsel's Request To Appear By Teleconference For 6 February 2007 Status Conference |
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Perisic |
15-Jan-07 |
Order Scheduling A Status Conference |
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Popovic et al |
17-Jan-07 |
Prosecution's Motion For Issuance Of Subpoenas With Confidential And Ex Parte Annexes |
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Popovic et al |
16-Jan-07 |
Decision Permitting The Addition Of One Exhibit To The Prosecution's 65ter List And Denying An Oral Request For Certification Pursuant To Rule 73(B) |
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Popovic et al |
16-Jan-07 |
Addendum To Popovic Defende "Rule 94 Bis Notice Regarding Prosecution Expert Witness Richard Butler" |
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Prlic and Others |
16-Jan-07 |
Order To Admit Evidence Relative To Witness Ismet Poljarevic |
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Prlic and Others |
16-Jan-07 |
Order To Admit Evidence Relative To Witness Cq |
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Prlic and Others |
15-Jan-07 |
Defence Notice In Response To Prosecution's Disclosure Of Expert Report Pursuant To Rule 94 Bis (Van Der Weijden) |
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Prlic and Others |
15-Jan-07 |
Order To Admit Evidence Regarding Witness Cc |
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Seselj |
12-Jan-07 |
Procès-Verbal Of Reception Of Bcs Translation Of "Order Withdrawing Confidential Status Of Order To The Registrar And Of The Registry Submission" |
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Seselj (Interlocutory) |
12-Jan-07 |
Procès-Verbal Of Reception Of Bcs Translation Of "Order Assigning Judges In A Case Before The Appeals Chamber" |
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Stanisic |
16-Jan-07 |
Prosecution's Response To Defence Request For Application Of Rule 73 Bis (D) |
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Stanisic |
16-Jan-07 |
Prosecution's Response To Defence Motion Concerning Prosecution's Pre-Trial Brief |
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Strugar et al. (Appeal) |
15-Jan-07 |
Décision Définitive Relative À La Notification De Désistement D'appel Présentée Par La Défense Et À La Notification De Désistement De L'appel Formé Par L'accusation Contre Le Jugement Rendu Par La Chambre De Première Instance Ii Le 31 Janvier 2005 |
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