IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER

Before: Judge Richard May, Presiding

Judge Mohamed Bennouna

Judge Patrick Robinson

Registrar: Mrs. Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh

Order of: 22 February 2000

 

PROSECUTOR

v.

DARIO KORDIC

MARIO ČERKEZ

 

 

 

ORDER FOR PROTECTIVE MEASURES

 

The Office of the Prosecutor:

Mr. Geoffrey Nice

Ms. Susan Somers

Mr. Patrick Lopez-Terres

Mr. Kenneth Scott

Defence Counsel:

Mr. Mitko Naumovski, Mr. Turner T. Smith, Jr., Ms. Ksenija Turkovic, Mr. Robert A. Stein, Mr. Stephen M. Sayers, Mr. David F. Geneson, and Mr. Leo Andreis, for Dario Kordic

Mr. Bozidar Kovacic and Mr. Goran Mikuličić, for Mario Čerkez

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 21 February 2000 ("the Request") seeking certain protective measures in respect of the witness identified in the Request,

HAVING HEARD the arguments of the parties in respect of the witness on 21 February 2000,

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,

HAVING GRANTED THE REQUEST orally on 21 February 2000,

PURSUANT TO Rule 75 of the Rules,

HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ORDERS as follows:

  1. the pseudonym AJ 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 AJ shall be given by means of facial distortion;

  3. the name, address, whereabouts and other identifying information concerning witness AJ 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 AJ 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 AJ shall not be disclosed to the public or the media; and

    6.  

  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 English and French, the English text being authoritative.

 

 

 

___________________________

Richard May

Presiding

 

 

Dated this twenty-second day of February 2000

At The Hague

The Netherlands SSeal of the TribunalC