UN tribunal lays contempt charge


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The Independent (London)

September 12, 2006

UN tribunal lays contempt charge

THE HAGUE The UN tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has charged a Croatian journalist with contempt for revealing the names of two witnesses who testified in a war crimes case. The freelance journalist Domagoj Margetic named the protected witnesses from the trial of Tihomir Blaskic, a Croatian general, on his website, the tribunal said.