The Office of the Prosecutor filed the motion for review in late July 2005, and on 6 December 2005 the ICTY declassified a portion of the supporting material from the case. The motion has until today been treated as a classified document.
In March 2000, the trial chamber found Blaskic, a war-time commander of Croat Defence Council (HVO) units in central Bosnia, guilty of war crimes and sentenced him to 45 years' imprisonment.
On 29 July 2004, the tribunal's appeals chamber upheld a majority of appeals by Blaskic's defence and reduced his sentence to nine years. It also ordered the immediate release of Blaskic, who had spent eight years and four months in the tribunal's custody.
Presenting its request for reconsideration of the final verdict, the prosecution claims that it possess new evidence of Blaskic's accountability which it did not have during the trial from 1997 to 2004.
A special appeals chamber should now decide on whether it will uphold or turn down the prosecution's motion for a review of the final verdict.