{"id":81050,"date":"2025-10-29T21:47:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=81050"},"modified":"2025-10-29T22:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T21:04:17","slug":"hashim-thaci-is-being-held-in-the-hague-without-trial-says-richard-grenell-europe-has-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/hashim-thaci-is-being-held-in-the-hague-without-trial-says-richard-grenell-europe-has-failed\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHashim Tha\u00e7i Is Being Held in The Hague Without Trial,\u201d Says Richard Grenell: \u201cEurope Has Failed\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Richard Grenell, the former U.S. Special Presidential Envoy under Donald Trump for special missions, has stated that former Kosovo President Hashim Tha\u00e7i is being held in The Hague without a proper trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">In a social media post, Grenell claimed that Europe has failed and is not responding to what he described as the injustice being done to Tha\u00e7i.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">He even suggested that Tha\u00e7i should sue The Hague in U.S. courts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cThere are many reasons why Europe is failing. But one example is the large number of European politicians who remain silent about The Hague, which has kept a Head of State in prison for five years without trial \u2014 and then the trial drags on for many more years. It\u2019s a brutal, archaic system run by elites. This is not justice. And no one should ever again take legal advice from a European. I hope Hashim Tha\u00e7i sues everyone in The Hague in an American court when he is released \u2014 after all, it\u2019s funded by U.S. taxpayers,\u201d wrote Grenell.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Grenell, the former U.S. Special Presidential Envoy under Donald Trump for special missions, has stated that former Kosovo President Hashim Tha\u00e7i is being held in The Hague without a proper trial. 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