10 minutes agoHague: Day after tomorrow First Trial at Special Court begins
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)On Wednesday, September 15th, judgment is expected to begin against former Kosovo Liberation Army member (UÇK), Salih Mustafa. At one time, this is the first judgment to be initiated before Kosovo's Specialised Chambers in The Hague. Through a letter published on the official page of this court, it is also known that the Prosecutor's Office [...]
Through a letter published on the court's official page, it is also known that the Specialised Prosecutor's Office (ZPS) has submitted witness testimony order for November and December 2021.
It says that information is included whether those witnesses will appear directly or via video connection and the proposed length of witness interrogation.
Former member of the Kosovo Liberation Army (UÇK) is the first arrested by the Special, reports “Justice Vow”.
Otherwise, on June 12, 2020, the indictment was confirmed against him, while his arrest took place on 24 September, where the same day he was transferred to the detention facility in The Hague. On September 24, the indictment of Mustaf had also been made public.
The same one had been declared innocent of charges imposed by the SPS.
The confirmed “Acuza stipulates that approximately between April 1st 1999 and April 19, 1999, at a detention complex in Zlatko, Kosovo, arbitrary crimes, cruel treatment and torture against at least six people were committed. Also, the indictment says that on a date between April 19, 1999, or about this date, and about the end of April 1999, a detainee” was killed at that location, the Special Court announced through a communiqué.
It becomes known that in the confirmed indictment, Salih Mustafa is charged in the context of various forms of criminal responsibility -- for arbitrary bans, cruel treatment, torture and unlawful murder as war crimes committed in the context of the non-international armed conflict in Kosovo, or in connection with that conflict.
