Good News for Thaci, Others by Special Court

The judge of the preliminary procedure, Nicolas Guillou, has made the decision by which Hashim Thaci, Jakup Krasniqi and Rexhep Selimi, has allowed for some cases filed by them to appeal the decision on defence motions claiming defects in the form of the indictment.

This has been made known by the decision published on the Special Court's official page, which is said to have allowed Selimi's appeal on cases of three to six, as well as on the seven cases. Jakup Krasniqi has been allowed appeal for the first, second, fifth, six, seven, nine and ten cases, as well as the third and fourth case the defence has raised.

While, for Hashim Thaci, appeal has been allowed from the third issue to the sixth, as well as from ninth to 15. The preliminary judge has refused to give permission for appeal to Selimi's first and second case on Krasniqi's eighth case, as well as on the first, second, seven and eight issues of Thaci. The decision on this case can be found.

Otherwise, on November 9th, in their first appearances, Hashim Thaci's Jakup Krasniqi has been declared innocent of charges placed on them. Wessel has been declared in his presentation on November 10th, as has Selimi on November 11th.

The incident against Hashim Thaci, Kadri Veselin, Rexhep Selimi and Jakup Krasniqi is confirmed on October 26, 2020.

According to the alleged indictment, at least between March 1998 and September 1999, Hashim Thaci, Kadri Veselini, Rexhep Selimi, Jakup Krasniqi and other members of the joint criminal enterprise had the common goal of securing and exercising control over all of Kosovo through methods involving intimidation, mistreatment, violence exercise and illegal elimination of those considered opponents. “Set up these opponents included persons who were, or who were considered to have been: (a) collaborators or forces, officials or state institutions of RFJ, or who (b) otherwise did not support the purposes or methods of the KLA and later QPK, among whom persons linked to the LDK and Serbs, Roma and persons of other nationalities (joinly, non-combatorsors). This common goal included crimes of persecution, imprisonment, arrest and arbitrary or illegal arrest, other inhumane acts, cruel treatment, torture, murder and forced disappearance of persons”, the indictment said.