Case: IT-02-63-I

BEFORE TRIAL CHAMBER I

Before:
Judge Daqun Liu, Presiding

Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis

Order of:
21 March 2005

PROSECUTOR

v.

Drago NIKOLIC

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ORDER FOR RELEASE OF AUDIO-VISUAL RECORD AND PERMITTING PHOTOGRAPHY

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The Office of the Prosecutor:

Peter McCloskey

I, DAQUN LIU, Presiding judge of Trial Chamber I ("Chamber") of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia Since 1991 ("International Tribunal"),

NOTING the Scheduling Order for an Initial Appearance issued in this case on 23 March 2005;

CONSIDERING the request made by certain officials of the press to the Communications Service of the International Tribunal;

PURSUANT TO RULE 81 (D) of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal;

HEREBY ORDER that, subject to any further order of the Trial Chamber:

1. the taking of still photographs by designated press photographers at the commencement of all proceedings in this matter is authorised as directed by the Chief of Security of the International Tribunal’s Security Service;

2. the release of the audio visual record of all open sessions in this case is permitted as provided by the Registrar of the International Tribunal.

Done in English and French, the English text being authoritative.

Dated this twenty-first day of March 2005,
At The Hague,
The Netherlands.

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Judge Liu Daqun
Presiding

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