Today, the closing statement of the victims' defender is expected to be made in the case of Peter Shala

Today, at the Special Court in The Hague, the trial will continue with the closing statement of the Victims Protector in the case of former Kosovo Liberation Army member Peter Shala. Otherwise yesterday the Special Prosecutor's Office demanded that the Judicial Chamber declare Peter Shala guilty of all crimes presented in Aktakuza and condemn [...]
Today, at the Special Court in The Hague, the trial will continue with the closing statement of the Victims Protector in the case of former Kosovo Liberation Army member Peter Shala.
Otherwise yesterday, the Special Prosecutor's Office demanded that the Judicial Chamber declare Peter Shala guilty of all crimes filed in Aktakuza and sentence him to 28 years in prison.
We remember that Shala was arrested on March 16, 2021, by Belgian authorities and transferred to The Hague on April 15, 2021. In the confirmed indictment, Shala is charged with individual criminal responsibility in various forms of war crimes as arbitrary bans, cruel treatment, torture and illegal murder committed in the context of the armed conflict in Kosovo and in connection with this conflict.
The “commands that Mr. Shala was carried out approximately between May 17th 1999 and June 5, 1999, against persons who were held in the metal factory in Kukes (Albania), allegedly used by the Kosovo Liberation Army”, it is said in the communique.












