Contempt finding for revealing protected witness [ICTY]

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Contempt finding for revealing protected witness [ICTY]

March 10, 2006 07:19:00 pm

The Prosecutor v. Ivica Marijacic and Markica Rebic, Trial Chamber, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, March 10, 2006 [finding two Croatians – a journalist and a former security official – in contempt for disclosing the name of a protected witnesses in the 1997 war crimes trial of Croatian Army general Tihomir Blaskic]. Read the full text of the ruling. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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