Court Decisions for Terrorism Suspects

Kosovo police on October 10th arrested: Ardijan Djurovic, Nuhredin Skiner, Ergim Syla, Mentor Bellaqa and Shkodran Krasniqi, as suspected of acts that are related to terrorism.

According to one of the defence lawyers, the detainees are charged with preparing terrorist attacks on constitutional order”.

According to the Special Prosecutor, those arrested are suspected of criminal acts “preparing terrorist acts or criminal acts against the constitutional order and security of Kosovo”, “The chairmanship of terrorist work”, as well as for criminal work “Import, export, transport, transport, production, exchange, mediation or sale of unauthorised weapons or plastic matter”

Also suspected of subx0> ownership, control or unauthorized possession of weapons”.

Defense: The prosecution has no proof

Lawyer Tome Gashi, who is protecting the 25-year-old from Prizren, Nehrudin Sviler, said his client had been arrested for such acts before.

The same work had been arrested four years earlier and had remained in custody for 120 days.

Then he was released in absence of evidence.

I believe that what the prosecution claims to have called as a group that have prepared funds and that they have bought weapons, we don't know that even if that's true and if any weapons were bought from them, but not by Nehrudin Skender definitely, that's what the prosecution would have been using?

And Ardian Djurist's lawyer, Arben Kelmendi, said the tracking organs have offered no evidence for which his client is blamed.

Only their doubts and assumptions and unconfirmed and groundless, where the Special Prosecutor did not give any evidence and no specific argument, specifically what my protector did. Neither is the leader (of the group), nor does it have anything to do with weapons, nor does any argument have any doubts about the same”, he said.

The father of one of those arrested, Fazli Syla, told Radio Free Europe that his son, Ergim Syla, has begun to pray and go to the mosque for several years.

He said his 38-year-old son is married and has three children, and deals with cattle in the village of Baskiq, Kline.

They came from 10am and arrested him. They've raided the house. They've been searched. They've found no weapons. I found it very, very difficult. I don't know what's gotten into him. Only I know that you're forgiven, you're going with friends, you're going in, you're going in, and then I don't know”, Syla said.

How punished can they be if convicted?

The works for which those arrested are suspected include sentences of up to five years in prison.

Criminal work “Preparing terrorist acts or criminal acts against the constitutional order and security of the Republic of Kosovo”, according to the Penal Code, sentenced to imprisonment of one to five years.

The other criminal work for which the detainees are suspected is “conducting the terrorist work”, which is sentenced to no less than five years in prison.

While the other work Kosovo Special Prosecution accuses those arrested, “Import, export, supply, transport, production, exchange, mediation or unauthorised sale of weapons or explosive matter” is fined to 7,500 euros and in prison of one to eight years.

Arrests are also suspected of non-authorized possession of weapons”.

For this criminal act, the Kosovo Criminal Code says anyone who holds ownership controls or owns weapons in violation of the applicable law regarding such weapons is sentenced to fines of up to seven thousand and five hundred 7,500 euros or imprisonment of up to five years.