[huridocs-tech] U.N. tribunal asks U.S. to close web sites about trial

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    Rwanda tribunal wants to constrain Web sites
    By Reuters
    February 28, 2001, 10:05 a.m. PT

    NAIROBI--The United Nations tribunal for Rwanda said
    Wednesday that it had appealed for U.S. legal help to curb potentially
    defamatory Internet sites maintained for two men on trial for
    genocide.

    At least one of the Web sites defamed judges and court officials
    involved in the trial of Rwanda's 1994 mass genocide, officials of the
    International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) said.

    "We are concerned that some of the statements on the Web sites are
    nothing but false and scurrilous," ICTR spokesman Kingsley Moghalu
    said. "But our major concern is the potential to use this medium to
    reveal the identity of witnesses."

    Tribunal officials are trying to regulate the Web sites by appealing
    to the countries and to the Internet service providers running the
    sites. Okali said the ICTR had asked the U.S. government "to assist us
    to look into this matter from the point of view of their laws."

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