IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER

Before:
Judge Patrick Robinson, Presiding
Judge David Hunt
Judge Mohamed Bennouna

Registrar:
Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh

Order of:
1 October 1999

PROSECUTOR

v.

BLAGOJE SIMIC
MILAN SIMIC
MIROSLAV TADIC
STEVAN TODOROVIC
SIMO ZARIC

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ORDER RELEASING EX PARTE CONFIDENTIAL DECISION
OF THE TRIAL CHAMBER

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The Office of the Prosecutor:

Mr. Grant Niemann
Ms. Nancy Paterson
Ms. Suzanne Hayden
Ms. Mary MacFadyen

Counsel for the Accused:

Mr. Slobodan Zecevic and Mr. Eugene O’Sullivan, for Milan Simic
Mr. Igor Pantelic and Mr. Novak Lukic,, for Miroslav Tadic
Mr. Deyan Ranko Brashich, for Stevan Todorovic
Mr. Borislav Pisarevic and Mr. Aleksander Lazarevic, for Simo Zaric

Counsel for the International Committee of the Red Cross

Mr. Alun Jones, QC
Mr. Christopher Greenwood, QC

 

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"),

NOTING its confidential ex parte "Decision on the Prosecution Motion under Rule 73 for a ruling concerning the testimony of a witness" issued by the Trial Chamber on 27 July 1999 ("the Decision"),

NOTING that the Decision was issued, and the proceedings leading up to it were conducted, on a confidential ex parte basis at the request of the Office of the Prosecution ("Prosecution") and the International Committee for the Red Cross ("ICRC"), appearing as amicus curiae, for reasons of witness protection,

NOTING that both the Prosecution and the ICRC have agreed that the Decision may be made public,

CONSIDERING therefore that there is no reason for the Decision to remain confidential,

HEREBY LIFTS the confidential status of the Decision, a copy of which is attached hereto.

 

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

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Patrick Robinson
Presiding

Dated this first day of October 1999
At The Hague
The Netherlands

[Seal of the Tribunal]