Former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci has been found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to 25 years in prison, a Kosovo war crimes tribunal ruled Wednesday.
Thaci, 58, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for crimes including murder, torture and illegal detention committed as top commander of the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) during the territory's break from Serbia in the 1990s.
Prosecutors at the war crimes tribunal in The Hague had asked for a maximum 45-year prison sentence for Thaci and the other defendants, Kadri Veseli, Rexhep Selimi and Jakup Krasniqi.
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Спецсуд в Гааге приговорил экс-президента непризнанной республики Косово Хашима Тачи к 25 годам лишения свободы.
ReplyDeleteHashim Thaçi, the former president of unrecognized Kosovo, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for war crimes.
ReplyDeleteA special court in The Hague found him guilty of murder, torture, and unlawful arrests. Thaçi was acquitted of charges regarding crimes against humanity.
On November 5, 2020, Hashim Thaçi resigned and surrendered to the court following the confirmation of an indictment for war crimes committed in Kosovo between 1998 and 1999.