Former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci faces a new trial this year in The Hague within days of closing arguments in his current war crimes trial, potentially keeping him behind bars for months more even in the event of a not-guilty verdict in the first case.
Thaci, who is charged alongside three fellow former guerrillas with war crimes and crimes against humanity during and immediately after the 1998-99 Kosovo war, has been in custody in the Netherlands since November 2020.
His legal troubles mounted in November 2024 when he was charged at the Hague-based Kosovo Specialist Chambers with obstruction of justice, alongside four co-accused including Kosovo’s former justice minister, Hajredin Kuci. Only Kuci was not kept in custody.
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