Special: Today's session of Salih Mustafa in The Hague Cancelled

On Thursday it was envisioned that Kosovo's Specialised Chambers Chambers Trial Hall (DHSK) in The Hague continue to try war crimes against former Kosovo Liberation Army member (UÇK) Salih Mustafa, but this session has been cancelled.

In a response to the “Justice Vow”, by DHSK have indicated that Thursday's session was scheduled in case more time was needed for the entry statements.

Because the opening statements were shorter than expected, judges have decided that there should be no previous hearings for Thursday”, the DHSK's response to “The Justice Vow” says.

Mustafa has been declared innocent at the session held on September 15th.

Otherwise, on June 12, 2020, the indictment against former Kosovo Liberation Army member (UÇK) has been confirmed.

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.

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