The court decides: Salih Mustafa remains in custody

The panel has found that the danger continues to exist that the accused will prevent the performance of the specialised Chambers procedure by interfering with victims and witnesses and/or their families.

The panel has also found that there are reasonable reasons to believe that the danger of preventing the performance of specialised chamber procedures, as predicted in Article 41506) * of the Law, continues to exist.

Meanwhile, it has been found that there is no danger of escape, and that even if such danger exists, the same could be akin to the conditions that would suit it with Article 4112) of the Law and the 5650 rule rule.

Otherwise, the indictment against Mustafa was confirmed on June 12, 2020.

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.

Salih Mustafa is charged with various forms of criminal responsibility for: arbitrary ban, cruel treatment, torture and unlawful murder as war crimes committed in the context of the non-national armed conflict in Kosovo, or in connection with that conflict.