IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER
Before:
Judge Richard May, Presiding
Judge Patrick Robinson
Judge O-Gon Kwon
Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis
Order of:
18 December 2002
PROSECUTOR
v.
BILJANA PLAVSIC
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ORDER FOR CONTINUATION OF PROVISIONAL RELEASE
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Office of the Prosecutor:
Ms. Carla Del Ponte
Mr. Mark Harmon
Mr. Alan Tieger
Counsel for the Accused:
Mr. Robert J. Pavich and Mr. Eugene O’Sullivan, for Biljana Plavsic
THIS TRIAL 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"),
BEING SEISED of a confidential request by the defence for Biljana Plavsic filed on 10 December 2002, seeking the continuation of provisional release for the accused as soon as practicable after the sentencing hearing, on the same terms and conditions as set out by the Trial Chamber in its original Decision of 6 September 2001 ("the Request"),
NOTING that the Prosecutor does not object to the Request,
CONSIDERING that the sentencing hearing has now concluded,
CONSIDERING the reasons given in support of the Request, and in the exceptional circumstances of these proceedings,
PURSUANT TO Rule 65 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal,
HEREBY GRANTS the Request and ORDERS as follows:
Done in English and French, the English text being authoritative.
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Richard May
Presiding
Dated this eighteenth day of December 2002
At The Hague
The Netherlands
[Seal of the Tribunal]