KLA and called him a traitor. Basha denied the accusations. In 2020, Serbian authorities arrested Nezir Mehmetaj at the Merdare. He is accused of participating in war crimes against civilians including murders and burning and looting of private properties in the village of Rudice at Klina during the war. He denied the accusations. In February 2021, the president of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, Ekaterina Trendafilova, informed the European diplomats that there were increasing efforts from Kosovo to undermine the court's work and warned about the safety of the witnesses. She mentioned that there were attempts to challenge the law and to pardon those convicted of crimes. In addition she said that Kosovo is trying hard to move the court from Hague to Pristina (capital of Kosovo) and such a move would "risk the lives, safety and security of the people who have or will be willing to cooperate with the court". In March 2021, Belgian authorities arrested Pjeter Shala, a former KLA commander on war crimes charges. The United States Country Reports on Human Rights Practices of 2021 reported that "leading politicians, civil society leaders and veterans organisations" in Kosovo were trying to undermine the Hague court. In May 2022, more charges were added for war crimes allegedly committed in 1998 and 1999 by KLA members at the dormitories in Budakove and Semetishte. According to the final indictment, most of the crimes committed at detention centres in Kosovo and Albania. In December 2022 Salih Mustafa, who had been arrested in September 2020, was convicted, in The Hague, of the war crimes of arbitrary detention, torture, and murder, but not convicted of cruel treatment due to legal reasons. He was sentenced to 26 years in prison. The Trial Panel also mentioned that the victims and witnesses have showed tremendous courage cooperating with the Specialist Chambers and the Specialist Prosecutor, because they were subjected to threats and intimidation in Kosovo for their cooperation. Prominent people Zahir Pajaziti (born 1962), commander, from Podujevo Ramush Haradinaj (born 1968), commander, also KPC, from Dečani Agim Çeku (born 1960), commander, also KPC, from Peć Lahi Brahimaj (born 1970), commander, also KPC, from Đakovica Sylejman Selimi (born 1970), commander, also KPC, from Drenica Fadil Nimani (1967–2001), commander, also NLA, from Đakovica Rahim Beqiri (1957–2001), commander, also UÇPMB and NLA, from Koprivnica Tahir Sinani (1964–2001), commander, also KPC and NLA, from Kukës Fatmir Limaj (born 1971), commander, from