Case No.: IT 95-5/18-I

BEFORE THE DUTY JUDGE

Before:
Judge Asoka de Zoysa Gunawardana, Duty Judge

Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis

Decision of:
11 October 2002

PROSECUTOR

v.

RADOVAN KARADZIC

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ORDER TO LIFT THE SEAL OF CONFIDENTIALITY OF THE AMENDED INDICTMENT, ARREST WARRANTS, AND NON-DISCLOSURE ORDER

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Office of the Prosecutor:

Ms. Carla Del Ponte

 

I, Asoka de Zoysa Gunawardana, Judge 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 Tribunal"),

BEING SEISED of a motion entitled "Confidential and Ex Parte Motion of the Prosecution to Vacate in Part the Order for Non-Disclosure Issued on 31 May 2000", dated 10 October 2002,

NOTING THAT an order dated 31 May 2000 was issued which prohibited the disclosure of the Amended Indictment, supporting materials, or arrest warrants until the arrest of Radovan Karadzic or until further order,

NOTING THAT on 14 February 2001 and 14 February 2002 respectively, arrest warrants and order for surrender, have also been issued, under seal, against Radovan Karadzic,

PURSUANT to Rule 28 and 54 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the Tribunal,

HEREBY ORDER that:

(1) The order of 31 May 2000 pertaining to non-disclosure of the Amended Indictment, the supporting material, and arrest warrants in the above-referenced case, and to non-disclosure of the order itself, is hereby vacated in part, and public disclosure of the Amended Indictment, arrest warrants and order for surrender shall be permitted;

(2) The supporting material shall remain under seal until further order.

 

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

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Asoka de Zoysa Gunawardana
Duty Judge

Dated this eleventh day of October 2002
At The Hague
The Netherlands

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