A former spokesman for the prosecutor of the International war crimes tribunal in The Hague has achieved a delay in a case against her for allegedly disclosing confidential details from the tribunal's trial of Serbia's ex-president Slobodan Milosevic, reported dpa.
The case against Florence Hartmann, who acted as spokesman for former chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte at the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), has been postponed until October 13, the ICTY said in a press release on Thursday.
Judge Alpons Orie had accepted Hartmann's request for a delay, the statement said.
Hartmann, who worked at the ICTY between 2000 and 2006, has been charged for contempt of court. She was due to appear in The Hague on September 15.
Hartmann is accused of "knowingly and willfully" disclosing information in violation of a court order, in her 2007 book "Peace and Punishment" which relates to confidential decisions of the tribunal's appeals chamber in the case of former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, the court statement said.
The ICTY prosecutor says Hartmann "knew that the information was confidential at the time the 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."
