Emmerson: Report by prosecutor's witness is recycling Serbian news

At the Special Court in The Hague, the testimony of Frederick Abrahams, official of the Human Fight Watch organisation, has been released in court as a witness to the Special Prosecutor's Office in the case against Thaci and others. He is being interviewed by the defense of Kadri Veselin, lawyer Ben Emmerson, who has said witness reports are only a recycling of Serbian news.

Abrahams is witnessing reports that he and his colleagues were preparing in the war period under the work of Human Right Watch.

In the courtroom, Emmerson said those reports had cited the Humanitarian Law Centre in the scriptures where the source were Serbian media.

While the witness himself had declared that Human Right Watch had the same methodology working with the Humanitarian Law Centre.

The British lawyer, Ben Embrson, has submitted documents showing the source of Human Fight Watch reports.

“says, all the research done by the Humanitarian Centre in the 1990-1999 period, all these research had a common methodology with ours... We just saw this last example where what you did is nothing more than a recycling of Serbian news reports in your”, Emmerson said.

This is Fred Abraham's third day testimony before the court at The Hague.

The hearing is continuing with attorney Ben Emmerson's questions.

In the court case against former KLA leaders have been heard 22 SPS witnesses, including Human Right Watch official. While only five have testified without protection or open hearings for the public.

The trial of Thaci and others has started on April 3rd with the opening statements, where everyone has been declared innocent of charges of alleged war crimes.

Hashim Thaci, Kadri Veselini, Jakup Krasniqi and Rexhep Selimi are located at the detention centre in The Hague from November 2020.