Victims defender urges 74 witnesses' statements in the KLA's quarter case to be written

According to a written response for “Justice Vow” by Kosovo Specialised Chambers spokesman ( In The Hague, Michael Doyle, the decision concerning this request of the victim's defender has not yet been taken.

The defenders of the victims in this court case are Simon Laws and Maria Radzieiowska.

The victim's “Guardian has demanded that 74 additional written testimony be accepted, but judges have not yet decided on this”, he said.

In addition, Doyle has announced that the defense of the victims has been approved for 6 other written evidence, while the case of testing ended with two witnesses in the courtroom, follows. Periscope.

Otherwise, 127 witnesses have been heard in the courtroom so far. Two of these witnesses are the defenders of the victims and the rest of the prosecution.

As written testimony, the testimony of 137 witnesses has been accepted in total. As noted above, 6 of them are the defenders of the victims, while the rest of the prosecution.

Meanwhile, on April 15th 2025, the prosecution has announced that it has completed presenting evidence in the case. Among the witnesses who witnessed at the public hearing who were summoned by the Prosecutor in this case were Albanians, Serbs and internationals. On September 15, 2025, however, it is scheduled to begin hearing defence witnesses.

While, the defence had applied according to the 130th Rule, which envisions a request to drop any charges or charges altogether in the indictment. The decision on this requirement was made on 16 July 2025. According to the chairman of the panel, Charles Smith III, what he had sought protection was his failure to rely on war crimes claims involving incidents that occurred before May 1998 and after June 20, 1999.

The trial “Trug notes that incidents and events that have occurred at the time opposed by defence are not accusations within the understanding of the 130” rule, the chairman of the court, Charles Smith III, said.

As a result, this motion had been dropped with the reasoning that the court's authority is to bring down material that constitutes accusations involving time causes. While, the same day, the protection of the victims had presented its evidence, calling two expert witnesses to testify simultaneously.

In addition to testifying on July 16, 2025, the testimony of these two witnesses continued on July 17, 2025, ending the testimony of the victims' defense witnesses. Witnesses of the victims' defense were Karin Duhne-Prince and Dr. Catherine Nicole Black.

The Specialised Prosecutor's Office, on September 30th 2022, has handed over the confirmed amended indictment against Hashim Thaci, Kadri Veselini, Jakup Krasniqi and Rexhep Selimi, which consists of ten points on charges, where the latter are charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity.

On April 29th 2022, the Specialised Prosecutor's Office had handed over a amended indictment to Hashim Thaci, Kadri Wessel, Rexhepi and Jakup Krasniqi, where four indictees have committed war crimes even in Gjilan, Budakov and Semtish.

On November 9th 2020, in their first appearances, Hashim Thaci's Jakup Krasniqi has been declared innocent of the charges placed on them. Wessel has also been declared in his presentation on November 10th, as has Rexhep Selimi on November 11th.

The incident against Hashim Thaci, Kadri Veselin, Rexhep Selimi and Jakup Krasniqi is confirmed on October 26, 2020.