ZAGREB, March 15 (Hina) - The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday affirmed the Trial Chamber's judgement in the contempt case against Croatian journalist Josip Jovic and
ordered him to pay a fine of EUR 20,000, the Hague-based court announced in a statement.
ZAGREB, March 15 (Hina) - The Appeals Chamber of the International
Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Thursday affirmed the
Trial Chamber's judgement in the contempt case against Croatian journalist
Josip Jovic and ordered him to pay a fine of EUR 20,000, the Hague-based court
announced in a statement. The Appeals Chamber dismissed all seven
grounds of appeal filed by Jovic and ordered him to pay the fine within 30
days, allowing him to do so in equal instalments of EUR 5,000.
On August 30, 2006 Jovic was found guilty of publishing closed-session
transcripts from the trial of Bosnian Croat commander Tihomir Blaskic.
Jovic, a former editor of Slobodna Dalmacija daily, was indicted on
September 9, 2005 for publishing in December 2000 the identity and testimony of
a protected witness, the current Croatian president Stjepan Mesic, who had
testified in the Blaskic trial.