IN THE TRIAL CHAMBER
Before:
Judge Richard May, Presiding
Judge Patrick Robinson
Judge O-Gon Kwon
Registrar:
Mr. Hans Holthuis
Decision of:
23 July 2003
PROSECUTOR
v.
NASER ORIC
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DECISION ON SUBMISSION OF AMENDED INDICTMENT
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The Office of the Prosecutor
Mr. Ekkehard Withopf
Mr. Jayantha Jayasuriya
Counsel for the Accused
Ms. Vasvija Vidovic
Mr. John Jones
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"),
BEING SEISED OF a "Submission of Amended Indictment" filed on 16 July 2002 by the Office of the Prosecutor ("Prosecution"), submitting an amended indictment dated 16 July 2003 ("Amended Indictment") against Naser Oric (“Accused”),
NOTING the "Decision on Preliminary Motion Regarding Defects in the Form of the Indictment" issued on 3 July 2003 by the Trial Chamber, ordering the Prosecution to file an amended indictment containing the two amendments proposed by the Prosecution,1
CONSIDERING that the Amended Indictment contains two such amendments and no other amendments,
PURSUANT TO Rule 50 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal,
HEREBY ORDERS that the Amended Indictment is the operative indictment against the Accused.
Done in English and French, the English text being authoritative.
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Richard May
Presiding
Dated this twenty-third day of July 2003
At The Hague
The Netherlands
[Seal of the Tribunal]