Thaci and his co-defendants were high-ranking Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA figures during the war. The Kosovo MPs in the delegation were political opponents of the KLA.

After being detained by KLA fighters, members of the delegation were then sent to Baice/Banjica and “beaten and interrogated”, the indictment claims.

Dedaj was the head of the delegation. On Monday, he told the court that “this was not an interrogation [by Thaci], I would like you to rectify this. These were conversations, these were normal conversations between leaders.”

Dedaj also told the court on Monday that he had “exaggerated” his previous testimony to EULEX investigators about the incident.

The indictment alleges that the delegation members were “badly beaten, and had visible injuries”.

Going back on the testimony he gave to EULEX in 2014, Dedaj repeated throughout his three days in court in The Hague that he was “not beaten”.

On Tuesday, during questioning by Thaci’s lawyer Luka Misetic, the court was shown video footage of a press conference held by Dedaj and others from the delegation in Pristina. The prosecution has claimed that the video showed Dedaj’s hand was bruised from the beating.

Misetic claimed however that dark area on Dedaj’s hand was shadow and not the result of violence.

The court was told by the prosecution and defence that Dedaj had provided a photo of his injuries to EULEX, as well as a list of the people involved in assaulting him.

In his previous testimony to EULEX, Dedaj claimed that the injuries “were very serious, my entire arm became black to the fingernails, when the weather changes my arm hurts from my shoulder to my fingernails and this is a permanent injury I got”.

However, Dedaj told the Hague court that he “did not show any photograph” and that he had fallen several times. “If it rained, you want to blame the KLA for that too,” he said.

“Nobody beat me and nobody can beat me,” he also told the court on Wednesday.

Thaci and Selimi, along with co-defendants Kadri Veseli and Jakup Krasniqi are all former senior KLA figures during wartime who later became senior politicians.

They are accused of bearing individual and command responsibility for crimes including 102 murders that were mainly committed against prisoners held at KLA detention facilities in Kosovo and neighbouring Albania.