ICTY indicts Dan newspaper director for revealing identity of protected witness Tanjug

ICTY indicts Dan newspaper director for revealing identity of protected witness
Tanjug - April 9, 2003

THE HAGUE - The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has indicted Dusko Jovanovic, director of a publishing house issuing the Podgorica daily Dan, for contempt of court, because one of Dan's articles revealed the identity of a protected witness in the trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, and asked Jovanovic to turn himself in. An ICTY statement, a copy of which was sent to Tanjug on Tuesday, said that Judge Carmel Agius had on Monday confirmed the indictment against Jovanovic and asked Serbia-Montenegro authorities to hand the indictment over to him and to inform him that under the law he had the obligation to turn himself in and come to The Hague.

Additional material said that the protected witness had received murder threats after his identity had been revealed.

Jovanovic said he would go to The Hague if summoned by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, which has indicted him for contempt of the ICTY by publishing the name of a protected witness in the trial of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic.

He ironically commented that the indictment is motivated by his participation in "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo-Metohija.

Additional information:

Jovanovic revealed the identity of protected witness "K-32." Contempt of court carries a maximum sentence of seven years imprisonment and a fine of up to 100,000 euros.