Specialised rooms: Conference on Thaci's Court Case and Others

The trial against former senior Kosovo Liberation Army superiors Hashim Thaci, Kadri Veselin, Jakup Krasniqi and Rexhep Selimi will start on April 3rd.

The preparation conference for the trial was held on 18 January 2023, followed by the Specialised Prosecutor's Preparation Conference on 15 February. The opening statements, on the other hand, are scheduled to be submitted from 3 April to 5 April, and evidence presentation begins on April 11, 2023.

The first act against them was confirmed on October 26, 2020, and was made public on November 5, 2020.

On July 22, 2021, the Judge of Pre-Procedure Procedures, through two rulings, partially passed the defence motions and ordered the Special Prosecutor's Office to correct and change the indictment, among other things, excluding the responsibility of joint criminal enterprise III for concrete crimes (three appeals against this decision, handed down by Thaci, Selimi and Krasniqi, were rejected by the Court of Appeals on August 22, 2022). Z The SP handed over the amended indictment on September 3, 2021.

On December 23rd 2022, the Pre-Procedure Judge approved the SPS's request for changing the indictment in order to include a number of new charges, namely, other detention centres in the Suhareka municipality, new incidents of persecution and unlawful murder in Gjilan, as well as new incidents of the accused's personal participation in the crimes he is charged with.

Following the rejection of Thaci's and Wessel appeals against this ruling by the Appeals Court panel on March 22, 2022, the SPS handed over the revised public version of the amended indictment on April 29, 2022. On July 22nd, 2022, the Pre-Precial Procedure Judge approved, in part, Thaci's defence request, which claims shortcomings in the last indictment and also ordered the SPS that, until September 30th, 2022, present the further amended indictment, with additional information concerning the actual charges.

The additional information concerns the names of direct perpetrators, victims and relevant locations in concrete paragraphs in the current indictment.

On 29 September 2022, the Pre-Precitable Procedure Judge approved the SPS's request to withdraw from the indictment of crimes claims in the Ferizaj municipality and ordered the SPS to reflect this withdrawal of the charges in the further amended indictment, which was handed over on September 30th 2022.

A less edited version of the indictment was delivered on February 27, 2023. Actually, this is the indictment in effect on this case.