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| International Court Fines Journalist |
| By washingtonpost.com |
| Published: 09/15/2009 |
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PARIS, Sept. 14 -- The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on Monday convicted a French journalist of contempt for writing about a secret court ruling and ordered her to pay a $10,000 fine, but did not sentence her to jail. Florence Hartmann covered the Bosnian war as a reporter in the 1990s, then became spokeswoman for the tribunal prosecutor from 2000 to 2006 before returning to writing. The case against her has been denounced as a waste of the court's time and money, and a deviation from its mission of prosecuting those accused of atrocities during the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia. Hartmann was serving as a tribunal spokeswoman at the time that the documents -- minutes of Serbia's Supreme Defense Council -- were provided to the court as evidence. They were kept from public view because of the secrecy arrangement. She wrote about them shortly after leaving the tribunal job even though she was aware of the secrecy arrangement, the court found. Other journalists also reported on the documents. Read More. |
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