Kosovo Liberation Army ex-fighter Xhemshit Krasniqi, who was convicted of abuse and torture at detention camps in Kosovo and Albania, had his prison sentence reduced on appeal to seven years.

Kosovo’s appeals court has reduced former guerrilla Xhemshit Krasniqi’s war crimes sentence from eight to seven years in prison, according to a judgment that became public on Tuesday.

The appeals court, whose decision was handed down on June 22, said it had partially amended the original judgment by “reclassifying the crimes that the accused was convicted for as war crimes against individual persons instead of war crimes against civilian population”.

The fine imposed on Krasniqi was also reduced from 1,500 euros to 1,200 euros.

According to the original verdict handed down in August 2016, Krasniqi was found guilty of the “arrest, illegal detention, violation of bodily integrity and health and torture of several witnesses and unknown civilians in the KLA camps in the towns of Kukes and Cahan (Albania), as well as in the town of Prizren (Kosovo) during 1999”.

The verdict said he committed his crimes in collaboration with other KLA members

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