Defence Seeks Release of Former Thaci President

In the letter published on the official site of Specialised Chambers, the defence has listed errors that the preliminary judge has made in his decision to continue detention, reports “Justice Trust”.

According to the defence, the preliminary judge has wrongly applied the burden of testing for revising Article 415), wrong in refusing to engage in the anticipated length of detention.

Protection far has claimed that the findings on Thaci's influence and authority are so unfair and unreasonable that they constitute an abuse of discrimination. According to the defence, the judge has also been mistaken in finding that the discovery of evidence increases the risk of escape, preventing procedures and committing other crimes.

In addition, the wrong has described access to third-state guarantees as well as failure to seek the views of third proposed states.

Otherwise, in their first appearances on November 9th, Hashim Thaci's Jakup Krasniqi has pleaded innocent to the charges they are being charged with.

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 prosecution, 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 and the unlawful 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.

In addition, Azem Syla, Lahi Brahimaj, Fatmir Limaj, Sylejman Selimi, Rrustem Mustafa, Shukri Buja, Latif Gashi and Sabit Geci are also mentioned.

According to the indictment, the accused along with other KLA leaders contributed to achieving the common goal.

“As an alternative, some or all of these individuals were not members of the joint criminal enterprise, but were used by members of the joint criminal enterprise to commit crimes for the realisation of the common goal (with members of the NKP, jointly members and NKP instruments)”, says the accusation act.

Note: The individuals mentioned in this article are considered innocent unless the court finds them guilty of decision of form.