12 minutes agoFormer prosecutor who filed charges against Thaci and others speaks for the first time about the judicial process in The Hague
Periskopi(8 months ago)
(8 months ago)Jack Smith, the former prosecutor of The Hague Special Prosecutor who filed the indictment against former KLA leaders, has spoken of the judicial process at The Hague. Smith has said that such large cases take years to prosecute. He talked about the presence of cameras in court, saying when this happened [...]
Jack Smith, the former prosecutor of The Hague Special Prosecutor who filed the indictment against former KLA leaders, has spoken of the judicial process at The Hague.
Smith has said that such large cases take years to prosecute.
He has spoken of the presence of cameras in court, saying that when this happened, witnesses could behave differently.
The last “case I had in Kosovo's specialised chambers. These war crimes cases in Kosovo, efforts to bring cases to court were almost impossible due to threats to witnesses.
One of these cases is continuing, these cases were in live-stream, but the identity of several witnesses was completely “blocked”. I love transparency, I don't like it, but I can't put witness lives at risk”, he said among other things in an interview.
Smith has filed the indictment against former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders (UÇK) at the Special Court in The Hague.
They are accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity, which have rejected the fourth
