Margetic arrived at Judge Renata Milicevic's office, but refused to be served with the injunction. The County Court's Presidency will notify the Justice Ministry, which will notify the Hague tribunal.
Judge Milicevic refused to tell Margetic what the UN court wanted from him given that he refused to take the confidential injunction.
Margetic told reporters he saw the injunction and that it banned him from publishing a list of 102 protected witnesses from the Tihomir Blaskic trial. He said he published the list on an Internet portal via an American server and that the portal was closed down a few days ago at the order of the Hague tribunal.
The tribunal considers the publication of protected witnesses' names as contempt of court and requests the Croatian authorities to prevent Margetic from further publishing the list.
Margetic said the injunction was also sent to a Trial Chamber in The Hague which was considering over the past three days which further measures to take.
He said he contested the tribunal's jurisdiction for the prosecution of Croatian journalists, himself included, because the tribunal's statute did not envisage a procedure under which such an injunction could be served to a journalist who published a piece of information by performing his professional duty.
Margetic said Croatia's constitutional law on cooperation with the Hague tribunal recognised only procedure involving war crimes indictments, which he said entailed arrest warrants and extradition.
He urged Zagreb's County Court to decide if serving the injunction was in accordance with Croatian laws and the constitutional law, if the matter was a criminal offence for which the Hague tribunal, under its statute, has jurisdiction, and if, under Croatian laws, he could be criminally prosecuted for contempt of the Hague tribunal.