What did Salih Mustafa ask of The Hague tribunal at the time of his father's life?

Salih Mustafa's father passed away in December 2025. But prior to that, Mustafa- who was convicted of war crimes by Kosovo Specialised Chambers (DHSK) in The Hague had sought provisional release from this court, but was not approved.

In his presentation, delivered through defence, Mustafa specified that his father's condition had deteriorated to the extent that he could not survive the disease, Report “Beting for Justice“.

Mustafa's father's health situation is extremely serious and critical. [ REDECT]. A medical report, along with his official translation, is found in Annex 1 of this document. [ THE father of Mustafa and is monitoring the situation. All prospects for Mustafa's father to survive this stage are very grim”, said in the statement of defence.

Mustafa had demanded that he be able to visit his father and, as he had specified his defense, that it is important to act quickly so that his client can be near his parent's bed while he was still alive.

“Mustafa seeks to be released temporarily in order to visit his father. [ Footnote] REDECT]. [ REDECT]. It is important to act quickly so that in case the father changes his life, Mustafa will have the opportunity to be close to his father's bed that he is still alive. For humanitarian reasons, defence requires Mustafa's temporary release, and [ REDAKUED]”, it says in the statement of defence delivered on December 21st 2025.

The act against Mustafa in the first instance was announced on December 16th 2022, with which Mustafa has been sentenced to 26 years in prison.

While on April 6, 2023, Salih Mustafa was ordered to pay 207 thousand euros for the damage to the victims. Later, he had submitted 51 points to the Court of Appeals' panel against the punitive decision of the Special Foundation to him.

However, the Special Appeal on December 14, 2023, has declared a verdict against Salih Mustaf, with whom he sentenced him to a unique sentence of 22 years in prison for war crimes.

According to DPSC, Salih Mustafa had applied for protection of legitimacy in the Supreme, and the decision on this requirement was made on 29 July 2024.

In his request for protection of legitimacy, Mr. Mustafa raised five points, which related to the translation of the Appeals Act into Albanian, his guilty plea for murder as a war crime, as well as the measure of sentence”, said in the DSF report.

The request for protection of legitimacy, Mustafa, had handed over on March 13th 2024 with whom he had demanded the Supreme Court of TsK to modify first and second degree judgments, canceling the sentences for arbitrary ban, torture and murder, thus declaring him innocent or completely canceling his convictions and turning the case into a retrial.

Mustafa has set out five points by which he has rejected the Appeal decision, which he was sentenced to 22 years in prison. Mustafa's request had been accepted in part, so the Supreme One had restored the case to Apel to establish a new sentence on the accused.

In reasoning with the court, the head of the Appeals panel, Michele Picard, said that the first degree court had made an outstanding mistake in condemning Salih Mustaf. She also added that a sentence rated for 22 years in prison, even counting the time spent in detention, reflects Mustafa's overall criminal activity.

And on September 10, 2024, The Hague's Court of Appeals has decided to change the sentence from 22 to 15 years in prison for Salih Mustaf after the Supreme returned the case to that degree. Again, Cal complained to the Supreme Court about Apel's second decision, but the third scale gave him the sentence.

The chronology of the case with Salih Mustafa, you can read the QETU. Otherwise, the indictment against Mustafa was confirmed on June 12, 2020. /Periscopi/