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The Special Court has announced that the Panel of the Court of Appeals has rejected the appeals of the defense of Hashim Thaçi and Kadri Veseli submitted on 21 February 2022, against the decision of the pre-trial judge, dated 23 December 2021, which partially allowed the Office of the Prosecutor Specialist (SPO) to amend the indictment in this case.
This was announced through a notice published on the official website of the court, which states that the decision was taken on March 22, 2022, according to the Telegraph.
On November 9, in their first appearances, Jakup Krasniqi and Hashim Thaçi pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The indictment against Hashim Thaçi, Kadri Veseli, Rexhep Selimi and Jakup Krasniqi was confirmed on October 26, 2020.
According to the indictment, at least between March 1998 and September 1999, Hashim Thaçi, Kadri Veseli, Rexhep Selimi, Jakup Krasniqi and other members of the Joint Criminal Enterprise had the common goal of securing and exercising control over all of Kosovo through methods that included intimidation, ill-treatment, violence and the illegal elimination of those considered dissidents, Oath of Justice reports.
“These opponents included persons who were, or were, considered to have been: (a) collaborators or affiliated with forces, officials or state institutions of the FRY, or who (b) otherwise did not support the aims or methods of the KLA. and later the KPC, including persons affiliated with the LDK and Serbs, Roma, and persons of other nationalities (collectively, ‘opponents’). “This common goal included the crimes of persecution, imprisonment, arrest and arbitrary or unlawful detention, other inhumane acts, cruel treatment, torture, murder and enforced disappearance of persons,” the indictment reads.
The indictment also mentions Azem Syla, Lahi Brahimaj, Fatmir Limaj, Sylejman Selimi, Rrustem Mustafa, Shukri Buja, Latif Gashi and Sabit Geci.
According to the indictment, the accused together with other KLA leaders contributed to the achievement of the common goal.
“Alternatively, some or all of these individuals were not members of the joint criminal enterprise, but were used by members of the joint criminal enterprise to commit crimes for the common purpose (together with members of the CPC, jointly ‘members and instruments of the NPC’, says the indictment.
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