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 DETENTION ON REMAND

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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 Indictment in the case Prosecutor v. Drago Nikolic dated 6 September 2002;

NOTING the Warrants of Arrest and Orders for Surrender, issued ex parte and under seal on 6 September 2002 and 11 October 2002;

NOTING that Drago Nikolic ("Accused") surrendered on 15 March 2005 and was subsequently transferred to the custody of the Tribunal on 17 March 2005;

NOTING the Acting President’s Order of 18 March 2005 assigning the case to this Chamber;

PURSUANT TO RULE 64 of the Rule of Procedure and Evidence of the Tribunal,

HEREBY ORDER the detention of Drago Nikolic and enjoin the Commanding Officer of the United Nations Detention Unit in The Hague to detain the Accused until further order; and

CONFIRM that 17 March 2005 shall be the date from which and for any purposes it shall be recorded that the Accused has been in the custody 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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