Specialist Chambers should learn from past experiences on witness testimonies
Why Rule 155 may be about to enter our daily discourse.
The statements of 16 witnesses, who had subsequently recanted their statements or refused to testify due to fear of reprisals, threats, intimidation or bribery, were ultimately deemed admissible.
Furtuna Sheremeti
Furtuna Sheremeti is a criminologist and legal scholar specializing in state crime, state harms, transitional justice and international criminal law. She holds an MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Oxford and is completing her PhD at KU Leuven in Belgium. She teaches at the Faculty of Law at the University of Prishtina and serves as a legal consultant to Rexhep Selimi’s defense team before the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague.
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