ICTY: Prosecution of Florence Hartmann
27 August 2008 The Hague Tribunal issues an order in lieu of the indictment against former spokeswoman of the Hague Prosecution on contempt.
A Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia, ICTY, issued "an order in lieu of the indictment" against
Florence Hartmann, former spokeswoman of the Hague Prosecution, on contempt.
Justice Report is told by the Tribunal that this document has the same
connotations as indictment, but, considering the fact that it has been issued
by the Court, and not by the Prosecution, it is called "an order".
"The Trial Chamber orders the prosecution of Florence Hartmann for
knowingly and willfully disclosing information in knowing violation of an order
of a Chamber," the Tribunal's public announcement reads.
The Order summons Hartmann to appear before the Court on September 15, 2008.
The Hague Tribunal considers that the former spokesperson of the Prosecution authored "a text published in 2007 and 2008 that disclosed information relating to confidential decisions of the Tribunal's Appeals Chamber in the case of Slobodan Milosevic".
"Florence Hartmann knew that the information was confidential at the time disclosure was made and that the decisions from which the information was drawn were ordered to be filed confidentially," says the ICTY's order.
The Hague Prosecution charged Slobodan Milosevic, former president of Serbia, with crimes committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In December 2001 Milosevic
pleaded not guilty to all allegations contained in the indictment. The
proceedings were dismissed after he had died in the Detention Unit in
Scheveningen five years later.
As of 2000 Florence Hartmann was spokesperson of Carla Del Ponte, former Chief
Prosecutor with the Hague Tribunal. Six years later she left the post and
published a book entitled "Peace and Punishment".
In an earlier interview Hartmann told Bosnian media that her book presented "a
segment of the Tribunal's work, which was not on record".
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