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Facebook Twitter Print Email. Astrit Haraqija and Bajrush Morina are accused by prosecutors — in an indictment filed in January and made public by the ICTY on Friday — of attempting to persuade a protected witness with the codename PW not to testify against Ramush Haradinaj, the former prime minister of Kosovo.

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Haradinaj, who was a prominent commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army KLA during the conflict with Serb forces in , was acquitted by the ICTY earlier this month of a series of charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, rape, torture, abduction, cruel treatment, imprisonment and the forced deportation of Serbian and Kosovar Roma civilians.

When they announced the verdict, the judges said the tribunal had encountered many difficulties in securing testimony from witnesses during the trials of Mr. Haradinaj and his two co-accused. The indictment released on Friday states that Mr. Morina was his employee, working as a political adviser, and then also as a part-time editor at Bota Sot, a Kosovo newspaper.

PW was granted protective measures in and early last year his unredacted witness statements were disclosed by prosecutors to the defence teams of Mr. Haradinaj and his co-accused. The indictment alleges that after learning of the identity of the witness last July, Mr. Haraqija instructed Mr.