The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on Monday sentenced Serbian Radicals leader Vojislav Seselj to 18 months' imprisonment for contempt committed by revealing the identities of witnesses in his trial for war crimes committed in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina.
Judge O-Gon Kwon said the accused had deliberately revealed protected information by naming 11 witnesses in one of his books.
This was Seselj's second sentence for contempt of court. He was first sentenced in July 2009 to 15 months' imprisonment for revealing the identities of three witnesses, also in one of his books.
The Hague tribunal accused him of contempt three times. The latest indictment was filed last May, accusing him of revealing on his website confidential information on the identities of prosecution witnesses for which he was given the two contempt convictions. In June, he pleaded not guilty, but the indictment was amended a fortnight ago and on Friday he is due to re-enter a plea.
Seselj has been in the tribunal's detention since early 2003 and his war crimes trial began in November 2007.
