IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER

Before:
Judge Patrick Robinson, Presiding
Judge Richard May
Judge Mohamed Fassi Fihri

Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis

Order of:
30 May 2001

PROSECUTOR

v.

DUSKO SIKIRICA
DAMIR DOSEN
DRAGAN KOLUNDZIJA
__________________________________________________________

ORDER ON REQUEST FOR
PROTECTIVE MEASURES
____________________________________________________________

 The Office of the Prosecutor:

Mr. Dirk Ryneveld
Ms. Julia Baly
Mr. Daryl Mundis

Counsel for the Accused:

Mr. Veselin Londrovic and Mr. Michael Greaves, for Dusko Sikirica
Mr. Vladimir Petrovic and Mr. Goran Rodic, for Damir Dosen
Mr. Ivan Lawrence and Mr. Jovan Ostojic, for Dragan Kolundzija

 

 

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 ("the International Tribunal"),

BEING SEISED of a Request for particular protective measures made by the Office of the Prosecutor ("Prosecution") on 5 April 2001 ("the Request") in respect of the witness identified by the Prosecution in its Request,

HAVING HEARD the arguments of the parties in respect of the witness on 5 April 2001,

HAVING GRANTED THE REQUEST orally on 5 April 2001,

NOTING the Decision of a bench of three Judges of the Appeals Chamber issued on 9 May 2001, dismissing the Defence application for leave to appeal the ruling,

CONSIDERING that the relief requested by the Prosecution is appropriate for the privacy and protection of the witness but is still consistent with the rights of the accused,

PURSUANT TO Rule 75 of the Rules,

HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ORDERS as follows:

  1. the pseudonym X shall be used whenever referring to this witness in proceedings before the International Tribunal and in discussions among parties to the trial;
  2. the testimony of witness X shall be given by means of facial distortion;
  3. the name, address, whereabouts and other identifying information concerning witness X shall be sealed and not included in any of the public records of the International Tribunal;
  4. to the extent the name of, or other identifying data concerning, witness X is contained in existing public documents of the International Tribunal, that name and other identifying data shall be expunged from those documents;
  5. documents of the International Tribunal identifying witness X shall not be disclosed to the public or the media; and
  6. the public and the media shall not photograph, video-record or sketch the protected witness while the witness is in the precincts of the International Tribunal.

 

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

 

 

______________________
Patrick Robinson
Presiding

Dated this thirtieth day of May 2001
At The Hague
The Netherlands

[Seal of the Tribunal]