Appeals judges at the special Kosovo tribunal in The Hague on December 14 confirmed the war crimes conviction of a former Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK) guerrilla commander who ran a prison during the 1998-99 independence conflict with Serbia but reduced his sentence from 26 to 22 years in prison.
Prosecutors in the war crimes trial of former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci are seeking to restrict communications and keep him apart from other detainees over concerns he and two co-accused are trying to influence witnesses, court filings published on Thursday showed. Prosecutors asked judges to order "the immediate segregation and suspension of all communications" of Thaci and two other former top leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army on trial with him. Thaci and three co-defendants have been on trial since April on 10 charges of persecution, murder, torture and forced disappearance of people during and shortly after the 1998-99 guerrilla uprising that eventually brought Kosovo independence from Serbia.
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