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Prosecutors seek 35-year prison term for Kosovo ex-rebel accused of torture

FILE PHOTO: Former Kosovo Liberation Army officer Salih Mustafa, accused of murder and torture during the 1998-99 Kosovo conflict, appears before a special tribunal set up to hear cases of war crimes allegedly committed by the KLA, in The Hague, Netherlands, September 15, 2021. Robin van Lonkhuijsen/ANP/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

War crimes prosecutors called on Monday for a former Kosovo Liberation Army guerrilla commander to be sentenced to 35 years in prison for allegedly running a "torture chamber" during the 1998-99 independence conflict with Serbia.

Salih Mustafa faces charges of murder and torture over a detention centre in Kosovo where prosecutors say prisoners, mostly fellow Kosovo Albanians who were political opponents of the KLA, were beaten and tortured on a daily basis.

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