17 minutes agoFormer KLA leaders' phone conversations at The Hague may be recorded and heard by the Special
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)Seven former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders are standing in detention at The Hague, where 4 of them are being charged with war crimes, murder and cruel treatment of people. The detainees are allowed to call their families, but their conversations can be recorded and heard by the chief of the detention facility [...]
The detainees are allowed to call their family, but their conversations can be recorded and heard by the chief of the detention facility in The Hague. Nevertheless, they are informed in advance that their conversation will be recorded.
Pre-prisoned in the facility of Specialised Rooms can perform two types of phone calls, protected and not protected.
Unprotected pre-prison calls can be monitored passively, meaning digital recording of phone calls without their immediate hearing.
According to the Administrative Office's Labour Guide concerning the detainees, the detainees are said to be informed of passive monitoring of their telephone conversations on unprotected lines.
Article 17 of this guide says that the chief of custody can listen to up to ten (10) of all telephone conversations recorded digitally every week, which are caseally selected.
The administrator may also decide that telephone conversations with an detainee will be heard, summed up, and transliterated. This could happen if the administrator sets necessary and proportional restrictions on visits and communications of a specific detainee.
On November 5th, the charges against Hashim Thaci and Kadri Wessel have been confirmed, which were sent to The Hague that day. Both are being charged with war crimes, murder, and inhumane treatment.
But, raids and arrests have taken place on November 4th against Jakup Krasniqi, who after eight hours of raids on his home, was arrested and sent to the facility of Specialised Chambers. The same day after 5: 00 p.m., an indictment was confirmed against Rexhep Selim.
While Hysni Gucati and Nasim Haradinaj have been arrested by EULEX police on 25 September in Pristina. That same day, they were transferred to the detention facility of Kosovo's Specialised Chambers in The Hague.
Against them has been issued for criminal acts against the administration of justice, respectively, for intimidation of witnesses, revenge and violation of the secret of the procedure, preceded in the Kosovo Criminal Code.
