Salih Mustafa handed over the appeals file

Through an announcement on the court's official page, it becomes known that the answers will be submitted in June.

“Salih Mustafa handed over the appeals file against the act pronounced on December 16th of last year. The edited public version of the correct appeals file, delivered on May 2nd, can be found here. On May 5th 2023, the Appeals Court panel partially approved the application of the SPS and the victims' defenders for the extension of the deadline and authorised them to hand over the files on the defence appeal file by June 5, 2023”, the court's announcement reported.

In December of last year, Salih Mustafa has been sentenced to 26 years' removal, accounting for his past time in custody, which is September 2020.

The prosecution claims the same has committed war crimes and the charges weighing on it are arbitrary bans, cruel treatment, torture, unlawful murder, while he has been convicted of point 1, 3 and 4.

The trial against Mustafa had begun on September 15, 2021, and sessions were held in 52 days.

Eight people have been admitted as victims in this court process, and the court has allocated 207 thousand euros for their compensation.

Thirteen witnesses from the Specialised Prosecutor's Office and 15 of the defence have been heard in the trial against Mustafa.

Many of the prosecution witnesses have been protected, whose identity has not been disclosed to the public.

At the beginning of this process, Salih Mustafa was declared innocent before the court.

According to the Specialised Chambers “The confirmed indictment stipulates that approximately between April 1st 1999 and April 19, 1999, at a detention complex in Zlatko, Kosovo, arbitrary detention crimes, cruel treatment and torture against at least six persons” were committed. Also, in the indictment it is said that “in a date between April 19, 1999, or about this date, and about the end of April 1999, a banned “was killed at that location. / KSP