Krizic, 49, was charged under Rule 77 of the tribunal's Rules of Procedure and Evidence because on 26 November and 3 December 2004 Hrvatsko Slovo made public the identity and extracts from the testimony of a protected witness given at a closed session in the trial of former Bosnian Croat commander Tihomir Blaskic on 16 March 1998.
Judge Orie said that in a motion filed on 20 September the prosecution proposed joinder of the Krizic case with those of three other Croatian journalists and a newspaper publisher charged with the disclosure of the identity and testimony of the same witness.
The three persons in question are the former editor-in-chief of Slobodna Dalmacija, Josip Jovic, the former editor-in-chief of Hrvatsko Slovo, Domagoj Margetic and the director of Hrvatsko Slovo, Stjepan Seselj.
Jovic failed to appear at a hearing at the ICTY scheduled for today, and Judge Orie announced that an order for his arrest would be issued.
Margetic and Seselj appeared in The Hague in early June and pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The Trial Chamber will first have to decide on the request to join the cases, and then on a date for the trial, Orie said, adding that the Trial Chamber wanted the trial to begin at the end of October.