Kadri Veseli arrives in Kosovo under tight security measures

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Gazeta Express

10/01/2022 14:37

Former speaker of Kosovo Assembly, Kadri Veseli, was granted provisional release by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC) in The Hague after his mother Ajshe Veseli passed away Friday at the age of 93.

Veseli was seen Monday entering his family house in Mitrovica South and he was escorted by tight security measures. The Specialist Chambers in The Hague granted Veseli provisional release to visit the family after his mother died last Friday.

Kadri Veseli is in the Kosovo Specialist Chambers detention in the Hague facing war crime charges for his role in KLA during 1998-1999 Kosovo war. In May 2021, Kadri Veseli was granted permission by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers to visit his dying father at the regional hospital in Mitrovica South after he suffered a troke. He passed away in July 2022. Kadri Veseli and three other senior KLA commanders, Hashim Thaci, Rexhep Selimi and Jakup Krasniqi are being held in detention since November 2020 facing war crime charges. The indictment, as confirmed by the KSC, states that the war crimes of illegal or arbitrary arrest and detention, cruel treatment, torture, and murder, and the crimes against humanity of imprisonment, other inhumane acts, torture, murder, enforced disappearance of persons, and persecution were committed from at least March 1998 through September 1999.  /GazetaExpress/