Case No.: IT-02-54-T

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.
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC

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ORDER TO THE REGISTRAR CONCERNING THE RELEASE OF CLOSED SESSION TESTIMONY AND EXHIBITS UNDER SEAL WITH RESPECT TO MILAN BABIC

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The Office of the Prosecutor

Ms. Carla Del Ponte
Mr. Geoffrey Nice
Mr. Dermot Groome

The Accused

Slobodan Milosevic

Amici Curiae

Mr. Steven Kay, QC
Mr. Branislav Tapuskovic
Prof. Timothy L.H. McCormack

 

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"),

NOTING the Order of the Trial Chamber of 11 December 2002 to the Prosecution that it review the transcript and exhibits of Milan Babić and report back to the Trial Chamber with respect to whether any such material currently under seal should remain under seal,

NOTING the confidential "Prosecution’s Submission on the Release of Closed Session Testimony and Exhibits Under Seal with respect to the Witness Milan Babić”, filed on 12 December 2002 (“Prosecution Submission”), in which the Prosecution identifies several redactions that it believes should be made to the transcript before it is released publicly and recommends public release of all exhibits filed under seal,

CONSIDERING that the redactions recommended by the Prosecution are appropriate,

PURSUANT TO Rule 54 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence

HEREBY ORDERS the Registrar to release publicly:

  1. all the exhibits admitted in support of the testimony of Milan Babic which were filed under seal; and
  2. the transcript of the testimony of Milan Babić, after he has redacted those passages identified by the Prosecution in its Submission.

 

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]