THE HAGUE, March 1 (Hina) - The International Criminal Tribunal for theformer Yugoslavia (ICTY) is due to hand down a judgement in the caseof Ivica Marijacic, former editor-in-chief of the Croatian newspaperHrvatski List, and Markica
Rebic, the newspaper's contributor, on 10March, the Hague-based tribunal announced on Wednesday.
THE HAGUE, March 1 (Hina) - The International Criminal Tribunal
for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) is due to hand down a judgement in the case of
Ivica Marijacic, former editor-in-chief of the Croatian newspaper Hrvatski
List, and Markica Rebic, the newspaper's contributor, on 10 March, the
Hague-based tribunal announced on Wednesday. Marijacic, 48, and
Rebic, 54, former head of the Security Information Service (SIS), are charged
with contempt of court for revealing in the 18 November 2004 issue of Hrvatski
List the identity and testimony of a protected witness in the trial of Bosnian
Croat General Tihomir Blaskic towards the end of 1997.
The witness in question was Johannes van Kuijk, a Dutch officer with
the UN Protection Force (UNPROFOR) in Bosnia-Herzegovina, who testified on the
failed attempt by ICTY indictee Miroslav Bralo to surrender in the UNPROFOR
base in Vitez earlier in 1997.