Salih Mustafa was the Commander of a BIA guerrilla unit, which operated within the Llap Operational Zone of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). The trial took place from 15 September 2021 to 15 September 2022. The trial judgment was pronounced on 16 December 2022, finding Mustafa guilty of war crimes of arbitrary detention, torture, and murder, resulting in a 26-year prison sentence. On 5 April 2023, the Trial Panel ordered Mustafa to pay an overall sum of €207,000 as compensation for the harm inflicted on the participating victims of the crimes for which he is convicted. On 14 December 2023, the Court of Appeals Panel reduced his sentence to 22 years of imprisonment. After a Supreme Court ruling on 29 July 2024, the case was sent back to the Appeals Panel to reconsider the sentence. On 10 September 2024, the Court of Appeals Panel imposed a new single sentence of 15 years, with credit for time served. There were eight participating victims in this case.
