The prosecution has until September to cut witness list in case against former KLA leaders

A list of fewer witnesses expected to be heard in this process is expected to be handed over to the Special Court by September of this year.

From this headquarters institution at The Hague, in a reply to Dukagjin, They have said it is impossible to know that until it can last the entire trial, but have said the court has repeatedly issued orders for the prosecution to accelerate the dynamics and performance of the case.

At this point, it is impossible to say how long general judgment will last in Thaci's case, etc. The prosecution has suggested that it would be needed by April 2025 for presenting their case. In view of this deadline, the Judicial Chamber has issued several orders to improve the case as much as possible. For example, the Judicial Chamber on May 29th ordered the prosecution to announce how it aims to further improve its case until September 16, 2024. The panel will then set up a status conference to listen to the parties' related parachutes. The exact number of witnesses the prosecution will call to present their case is unknown and witness lists are confidential. By May 27, 2024, the prosecution had submitted 67 witness statements and announced in court that it intends to submit 104 more statements. However, as explained once, they have been ordered by the Judicial Chamber to announce how to further improve their case. After the prosecution has submitted their case, defence teams will present their cases. So far, there is no record of how many witnesses aim to call defence teams to testify and how long it will last. ”

Meanwhile, since the Specialised Prosecutor's Office, they have said that by 21 June a detailed plan on how to proceed with the case by next year will be delivered.

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At the May 27th status conference, the court ordered the SPS to hand over a detailed plan until June 21st, 2024, describing how it aims to present its case until April 1st 2025 and submit a further witness list notice no later than September 16th 2024.

The latest surrender of SPS to witnesses is from 21 May 2024) https://www.scpks.org/cysits/default/files/public/content/ublicatedover-projectionsofputionsofwitnessings.pdf). The information you care about the number of witnesses will be handed to the court in a file no later than September 16th, 2024. ”

For certain reasons of time savings, the prosecution has now given up hearing several witnesses, and even now the prosecution will reduce the proposed list of witnesses because the prosecution probably doesn't need to hear more witnesses for the same circumstances and will save the time”, has declared Amer Aliaj properly Fund for Humanitarian Law.

And according to accredited lawyer Taulant Hodaj, extending this process and placing the accused in custody would be a violation of human rights.

We're almost almost four years under ban now, and we have the practice of the European Court for Human Rights that should not be kept inconsistently in the ban without a judicial ruling, and I consider that if it takes place five years and we still have no verdict on the basis of the European court's practice, it is considered to be contrary to the Convention on Human Rights”, Taulantdaj Hountaj Accredited Lawyer.

The judicial process against Hashim Thaci, Kadri Veselin, Rexhep Selimi and Jakup Krasniqi has started in April 2023, until they are in custody since 2020.

For a year and two months, about 105 witnesses have been heard among them, including the statements of witnesses who had been admitted in writing.