Salih Mustafa, the first to be tried by the Special

Salih Mustafa will no longer be known only as the first Special Arrester. The former Kosovo Liberation Army chief will also be the first to which the Specialised Chambers in The Hague will start true judgment. The trial begins on September 15, 2021, 356 days after former Commander Cal was [...]
The former Kosovo Liberation Army chief will also be the first to which the Specialised Chambers in The Hague will start true judgment.
The trial begins on September 15, 2021, 356 days after former Commander Cal was transferred to the Netherlands on September 24, 2020.
And in the decision, published Friday evening by the head of the court, Dutch Mapie Veldt Foglia, several more orders and decisions have been made on the defense and Office of the Special Prosecutor.
The request of the latter has also been made known for the time it must give the opening word.
To come to this decision on Mustaf on June 9th and 10th, three consecutive preparation sessions were held, where it became known that the defence has not yet completed its investigations and that it has not met all witnesses on the list.
Until June, six more sessions called status conferences were held against the former Llap Operative Zone commander.
It had become known in them that more than 16 witnesses will testify against Mustafa and that thousands of documents from specialised prosecutors have been collected.
Mustafa is charged that during April 1999 he committed war crimes at a detention centre in Zlath, near Pristina, and except Jakup Krasniqi is the only indictee to label the process an injustice compared to the Serb failing to commit by state orders crimes in Kosovo.
He had thus denied all that lies in the charge of being declared innocent.











