The Order, issued on 27 August, alleges that Hartmann authored text published in 2007 and 2008 that disclosed information relating to confidential decisions of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Appeals Chamber in the case of Slobodan Milošević. From 2000 until 2006, Florence Hartmann served as the spokesperson for the former Chief Prosecutor of the ICTY, Carla Del Ponte.

Hartmann was a correspondent in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s for the French newspaper Le Monde. Her controversial book Paix et châtiment (Peace and Punishment) was published in 2007 and contained previously undisclosed information about the Milošević case. In 2008, Hartmann authored an article entitled “Vital Genocide Documents Concealed” that was published by the Bosnian Institute.

The Order, issued by a specially appointed Trial Chamber, states that, “Hartmann knew that the information was confidential at the time disclosure was made, that the decisions from which the information was drawn were ordered to be filed confidentially, and that by her disclosure she was revealing confidential information to the public.”

Hartmann has been summoned to appear before the Tribunal on 15 September 2008 at 15:00.

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