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Florence Hartmann, former spokeswoman of the Hague Prosecution, is due to appear before the Chamber of the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia, ICTY, again on November 14, when she is supposed to enter her plea to the counts charging her with contempt of court.
In the course of her first appearance before the Court, on October 27, Hartmann asked the Court to postpone her plea hearing. Her legal representative explained this request by the fact that he was still not sure whether he would be the one representing her in this case.
Hartmann is charged, under “an order, which has the connotations of an indictment”, issued by the Hague Tribunal, with having disclosed confidential data, pertaining to the Appellate Chamber’s decisions in the case against Slobodan Milosevic, in her book “Peace and Punishment”, published in 2007, and in an article on “Hidden Key Documents on Genocide”, written in 2008.
The Tribunal tried Milosevic for crimes committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but the proceedings were never completed, because he died in the detention unit in Scheveningen in 2006.
At that time Hartmann was the spokeswoman of Carla Del Ponte, former Chief Prosecutor at The Hague.
