{"id":3699,"date":"2026-05-19T01:22:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T01:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illyrianinfo.com\/?p=3699"},"modified":"2026-05-19T01:22:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T01:22:51","slug":"thacis-lawyer-criticizes-special-no-defense-complaint-has-been-accepted-in-5-and-a-half-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/illyrianinfo.com\/?p=3699","title":{"rendered":"Tha\u00e7i&#8217;s lawyer criticizes Special: No defense complaint has been accepted in 5 and a half years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Luka Misetic, lawyer for former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci, has sharply criticized the efficiency of the Court of Appeals that operates within the Specialist Chambers in The Hague.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Misheti\u0107, through a post on the X platform, wrote that during the five and a half years that Tha\u00e7i has been held in detention, all appeals filed by the defense have been rejected.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p> According to him, the balance of complaints in the Tha\u00e7i case is &#8220;0 to 40&#8221; in favor of Speciale.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cFor the sake of completeness regarding the effectiveness of appeals in the war crimes trial of Hashim Tha\u00e7i: The defense in this trial has already filed (and completed) 40 interlocutory appeals. The Appeals Panel has so far rejected all of them. That means 0 out of 40 over five and a half years,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p> Officially, the trial against Hashim Tha\u00e7i, Kadri Veseli, Jakup Krasniqi and Rexhep Selim began on April 3, 2023, while the verdict is expected to be announced on July 20, 2026.<\/p>\n<p> Meanwhile, the Specialized Prosecutor&#8217;s Office has requested a prison sentence of 45 years for each of the accused, a request that has been strongly opposed by their defense. \/Telegrafi\/<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luka Misetic, lawyer for former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci, has sharply criticized the efficiency of the Court of Appeals that operates within the Specialist Chambers in The Hague. Misheti\u0107, through a post on the X platform, wrote that during the five and a half years that Tha\u00e7i has been held in detention, all appeals filed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/illyrianinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/illyrianinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/illyrianinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illyrianinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illyrianinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/illyrianinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illyrianinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/illyrianinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illyrianinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illyrianinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3699"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/illyrianinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftmauthors&post=3699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}