Daily:Indictments against ex-KLA leaders “to shake Kosovo”
PRISTINA, 21. JUNE 2016 – A Pristina-based daily writes that the first indictments of the special court for KLA (“Kosovo Liberation Army”) war crimes are expected by the end of the year. According to...
View ArticleKosovo Ex-Guerrilla Jailed for Wartime Torture
PRISTINA, 08. AUG. 2016 – EU rule-of-law mission judges sentenced former paramilitary Kosovo Liberation Army fighter Xhemshit Krasniqi to eight years in jail for the abuse and torture of civilians in...
View ArticleKosovo Special War Crimes Court to start by the end of the year
PRISTINA, 22. AUG. 2016 -Outgoing EU Special Representative in Kosovo Samuel Zbogar When asked when the Special Court for war crimes committed by the KLA (“Kosovo Liberation Army”) can be expected,...
View ArticleUS Lawyer Appointed Kosovo War Crimes Special Court Chief Prosecutor
BRUSSELS, 05. SEPT. 2016 – US lawyer David Schwendiman has been appointed as the chief prosecutor of the new Hague-based Special Kosovo war crimes court which is expected to try former Albanian...
View ArticleKosovo War Court Prosecutor Promises ‘Fearless’ Probes
THE HAGUE, 15. SEPT. 2016 – The chief prosecutor at the new special court set up to try former paramilitary Kosovo Liberation Army fighters for crimes during and after the war promised he would conduct...
View ArticleFormer Albanian KLA war crimes court “will change Kosovo’s political scene”
PRISTINA, 16. SEPT. 2016 – A war crimes court that will deal with the crimes committed in Kosovo by the former ethnic Albanian paramilitary KLA (“Kosovo Liberation Army”) will start its work in the...
View ArticleKosovo President Demands Prosecutors Probe War Crimes
PRISTINA, 10. OCT. 2016 – President Hashim Thaci sent letters to Kosovo prosecutors urging them to take action to resolve a series of crimes against both ethnic Albanians and Serbs during and after the...
View ArticleKosovo ex Paramilitary Commander Fatmir Limaj Charged with War Crimes
PRISTINA, 28. OCT. 2016 – Kosovo’s Special Prosecution filed an war crimes indictment against former paramilitary Kosovo Albanian. The Special Prosecution charged Fatmir Limaj with war crimes over the...
View ArticleKosovo police official arrested for war crimes released
BELGRADE, 02. NOV. 2016 – The Serbian Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime has halted an investigation against Kosovo Police official Nihat Thaci, who was released, official news agency Tanjug...
View ArticleNew War Court Could Disrupt Kosovo’s Politics
PRISTINA, 02. NOV. 2016 (BIRN) – If the new Hague-based Special Court indicts senior politicians for war crimes and political killings, it could bring down Kosovo’s governing coalition and undermine...
View ArticleFirst former Kosovo Albanian paramilitary KLA war crimes court indictments...
PRISTINA, 03. NOV. 2016 – The special court for ex Kosovo Albanian paramilitary formation KLA war crimes could raise the first indictments by June 2017, Koha Ditore – a Pristina-based Albanian language...
View ArticleKosovo War Crimes Court Prosecutor: I will be guided only by the facts and...
Pristina, 07 November 2016 – The recently appointed Kosovo Special Tribunal Chief Prosecutor of the newly created Specialist Prosecutor’s Office, Mr David Schwendiman, stressed during his visite to...
View ArticleFM Johnson: UK to monitor work of special court for KLA crimes
PRISTINA, 10. NOV. 2016 – Boris Johnson has announced that cooperation with the special court for the former Kosovo Albanian paramilitary KLA (“Kosovo Liberation Army”) war crimes was “very important...
View ArticleProsecutor: “Sufficient evidence to indict ex-KLA members”
BRUSSELS, 14. NOV. 2016 – There is sufficient evidence to indict certain former members of the former Kosovo Albanian paramilitary group KLA (“Kosovo Liberation Army”) for war crimes committed in the...
View ArticleKOSOVO:EKATERINA TRENDAFILOVA APPOINTED PRESIDENT OF THE SPECIALIST WAR...
PRISTINA, 14 Dec 2016 – Dr Ekaterina Trendafilova was appointed the first President of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers . After the independent Selection Panel submitted its recommendation, the...
View ArticleEX KOSOVO ALBANIAN PARAMILITARY HARADINAJ APPREHENDED IN FRANCE
PARIS, PRISTINA, 04. JAN. 2017 -The French police arrested ex Kosovo Albanian paramilitary UCK chief Ramush Haradinaj, actually president of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo party, based on an...
View ArticleSerbia to seek arrested Haradinaj’s extradition from France
BELGRADE, 05. JAN. 2016 – Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has commented on the arrest of Ramush Haradinaj in France to say it is “good for justice to be above politics” and stressed that...
View ArticleEx Kosovo Albanian paramilitary commander Haradinaj to be kept in custody...
PARIS, 05. JAN. 2017 – Former Kosovo Albanian paramilitary UCK commander Ramush Haradinaj , arrested by French police, will remain in custody “until Serbia makes a formal extradition request,” a French...
View ArticleAlbania:Haradinaj’s arrest, strong criticism against the EU, suspension of...
TIRANA, 09. JAN. 2017 – In Albania, the repeated arrests of the former Prime Minister of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj is being commented with rage against French authorities. They say that this arrest is...
View ArticleSerbian Prosecution:”New evidence against Haradinaj, indictment expanded”
BELGRADE, 11. JAN. 2017 – The Serbian Ministry of Justice has sent to the French judicial authorities an extradition request for former Kosovo Albanian paramility commander Ramush Haradinaj, arrested...
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