13 minutes agoAppeal hearing in case against Salih Mustaf
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)The Court of Appeals panel has scheduled the session on the case of Salih Mustaf for the 26th and 27th October of this year. This was made known by a order published on the Special Court page. According to the announcement, the judgment will be held between 13:30 and 17:10 on October 26, while [...]
The Court of Appeals panel has scheduled the session on the case of Salih Mustaf for the 26th and 27th October of this year.
This was made known by a order published on the Special Court page. According to the announcement, the trial will be held between 13:30 and 17:10 on October 26th, while from 09:30 to 11:05 a day later.
In February, Salih Mustafa's defense had revealed the handover of nine causes of appeal, following a 26-year prison sentence, which you submitted in December last year.
The prosecution claims Mustafa has committed war crimes and the charges weighing on him 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.
There are eight people who have been admitted as victims and who have participated in this judicial process, while 13 SPS and 15 defence witnesses have been heard.
Many of the prosecution witnesses have been protected, whose identity has not been disclosed to the public.
Early in this process Salih Mustafa, who faces charges of alleged war crimes, 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
