Specialist continues detention to Jakup Krasniqi

“There is a danger of Jakup Krasniqi escaping and preventing progress in the procedure, or of performing further acts against those perceived as KLA opponents, including witnesses who have offered or may offer evidence in this case, and/or have to appear before the DHSK” quex1> is explained in the decision. The judge has ordered Krasniqi's defence that if he wants to deposit the parachute for the upcoming detention review, he will have to until 17 October.

While the prosecution has been ordered to return the response no further than October 24th, while the defence to return response to SPS's prefixes has been ordered to do the same no further than October 31st.

What are Thaci and the others accused of?

Towards former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci, former head of the Democratic Party of Kosovo, Kadri Veselin, former member of the KLA General Staff, Rexhep Selimi and former KLA spokeswoman Jakup Krasniqi burden charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Since November 2020 they have been in custody at The Hague and have been declared innocent of charges weighing on them.

According to the initial indictment, Thaci, Veselin, Krasniqi and Selimi are suspected of criminal acts dealing with war crimes: illegal or arbitrary bans, cruel treatment, torture and unlawful murder, and crimes against humanity -- imprisonment, other inhumane acts, forced extinction of persons and persecution, which, according to Specialised Chambers, were committed between March 1998 and September 1999.

The crimes allegedly were committed in several Kosovo locations and in northern Albania.

On May 10th, the Specialised Prosecutor has presented three categories of changes in the indictment against Thaci and other former leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army.

According to the amended version of the indictment, in the villages of Budakova and Semtish in Suhareka, it is suspected that between June 4th 1998 and September 1998, at least 12 persons were detained at the detention centre.

Also, in the indictment it is said at the end of June and early July 1999, members of the KLA banned at least three persons without regular legal process in a KLA headquarters located at a former school and dormitory building in Gjilan”.

Specialised Chambers and Specialised Prosecutor's Office, also known as the Special Court, investigate the alleged crimes of members of the Kosovo Liberation Army committed against ethnic minorities and political rivals from January 1998 to December 2000.

These alleged crimes are mentioned in a 2011 Council of Europe report, author of which is Swiss senator Dick Marty.