IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER
Before:
Judge Richard May, Presiding
Judge Patrick Robinson
Judge O-Gon Kwon
Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis
Decision of:
19 February 2002
PROSECUTOR
v.
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC
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DECISION GRANTING PROTECTIVE MEASURES FOR INDIVIDUAL WITNESSES
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The Office of the Prosecutor
Mr. Geoffrey Nice
Mr. Dirk Ryneveld
Ms. Hildegaard Uertz-Retzlaff
Mr. Dermot Groome
The Accused
Slobodan Milosevic
Amicus Curiae
Mr. Steven Kay
Mr. Branislav Tapuskovic
Mr. Michaïl Wladimiroff
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 confidential "Prosecution’s Motion for Specific Protective Measures for Individual Witnesses Testifying during the Kosovo Phase of Trial" filed by the Office of the Prosecutor ("Prosecution") on 12 February 2002 ("the Motion") in respect of five witness identified by the Prosecution in the Motion ("the Protected Witnesses"),
CONSIDERING that the relief requested by the Prosecution is appropriate for the privacy and protection of the Protected Witnesses but is still consistent with the rights of the accused,
PURSUANT TO Rule 75 of the Rules,
HEREBY GRANTS THE MOTION AND ORDERS as follows:
Done in English and French, the English text being authoritative.
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Richard May
Presiding
Dated this nineteenth day of February 2002
At The Hague,
The Netherlands
[Seal of the Tribunal]