The prosecution decides when Special Court gets to work

In a pronomation for “Index”, lawyer Tome Gashi has said that when the prosecution starts the first charges, then the Special will start work.

There is no precise date when the work of the Special Court is expected to begin, but it is more now up to the prosecution, which will have to submit the first charges to the court. The court is now formed, has the legal structure, are elected judges, is the judicial staff and technical staff, so it is now up to the prosecution when it is ready to submit the first charges, rather than from the” Court, he has declared.

Gashi has commented on the Special's decision to broadcast court hearings directly to former Kosovo Liberation Army members.

According to him, sessions that may be sensitive will not come out directly and will be closed.

It's a website on which the judgments will be broadcast so they can be transparent, so if they stick to what they've read. But this practice is the same as the former The Hague Trubunal where sessions have been constantly broadcast, but no session is broadcast directly but with a 30-minute delay so that if someone mentions protected witness names, they will not be made public through the media. But, no matter what the Court has declared that in sensitive séance, they will be closed and will not be made public”, Gashi has said away about “Indexline”

Otherwise, the Special Court will judge former KLA members who are suspected of war crimes. /Indesksonline/