Alphonsus Martinus Maria Orie better known as Alphons Orie (born 23 November 1947 in Groningen, Netherlands) is a Dutch

Dutch people

The Dutch people are an ethnic group native to the Netherlands. They share a common culture and speak the Dutch language. Dutch people and their descendants are found in migrant communities worldwide, notably in Suriname, Chile, Brazil, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and the United...

 former lawyer

Lawyer

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 specialising in criminal law and is now one of the thirty-two judge

Judge

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s at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

The International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991, more commonly referred to as the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia or ICTY, is a...

 (ICTY) in The Hague.

Orie spent seventeen years until 1997 on the bar, and then four years as a criminal chamber judge, of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands. On 17 November 2001 he was sworn in as a judge of the ICTY.

Notable cases over which Orie presided include Stanislav Galić

Stanislav Galic

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, Miodrag Jokić

Miodrag Jokić

Miodrag Jokić is a convicted war criminal who was the Montenegrin general in the Yugoslav People's Army during the 1991 siege of Dubrovnik...

, Milan Babić

Milan Babic

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, Momčilo Krajišnik

Momcilo Krajišnik

Momčilo Krajišnik is a Bosnian Serb former politician convicted of murder and other crimes against humanity during the Bosnian war .He co-founded the Bosnian Serb nationalist Serbian Democratic Party with Radovan...

, Ramush Haradinaj

Ramush Haradinaj

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, Gotovina et al (Ante Gotovina

Ante Gotovina

Ante Gotovina is a former Senior Corporal of the French Foreign Legion and former Lieutenant General of the Croatian Army who served in the Croatian War for Independence...

, Mladen Markač

Mladen Markac

Mladen Markač , is a former Croatian military officer. He was a Commander of Croatian Special Police during Operation Storm during the Croatian War of Independence , and afterwords held the rank of Colonel General...

 and Ivan Čermak

Ivan Cermak

Ivan Čermak is a Croatian politician and soldier.He was born in the municipality of Zagreb . He became a small businessman in the 1980s...

) and, currently, Jovica Stanišić

Jovica Stanišic

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, Ratko Mladić, and Franko Simatović

Franko Simatovic

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.