Former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci faces verdict for alleged war crimes

Prosecutors have requested a 45-year jail sentence for Thaci and three wartime commanders accused of war crimes.

x whatsapp-stroke copylink google Add Al Jazeera on Google info Kosovo's former President Hashim after a hearing with international war crimes prosecutors in The Hague, Netherlands [File: Pierre Crom/Getty Images] By AP Published On 16 Sep 2026 16 Sep 2026 The Kosovo war crimes tribunal will on Wednesday deliver its verdicts in the case of former President Hashim Thaci and several wartime commanders accused of murder and torture during the self-declared republic’s break from Serbia.

Thaci, 58, is facing several counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, torture and persecution, along with three former commanders from the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), a separatist militia that fought Serbian troops.

Thaci and the other former high-ranking commanders, Jakup Krasniqi, Rexhep Selimi and Kadri Veseli, deny the charges.