These are Special Appeals judges who will decide whether or not to release KLA leaders.

However, Thaci's lawyers, Veselin, Selimi and Krasniqi have submitted their request to special Apel chamber operating under the Special Court, writes news.net.

Thus, the prosecutor of the preliminary procedure has appointed the Appeals panel made up of three judges -- Michele Picard, Kai Ambos and Nina Jorgensen.

But who are the Courts of Appeals to deal with the case of the former KLA leaders?

Kai Ambos from Germany has been head of the country for international criminal law and professor of criminal law, criminal procedure, equal rights and international criminal rights at the University of Ghuttingen (Göttingen) in Germany since May 2003.

In 2013, he was appointed director of the Research Centre for Rights and the Latin American Criminal Procedure (CEDPAL) at the University of Gittingen. He has also worked as a defence lawyer and consultant at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Court.

Since March 2006, Judge Ambos has been working as acting judge at the Special Court of Downfire in Gittingen, of which he was delegated to the Brownshiweg Appeal Court (Branunscheweg) for 2015.

Judge Ambos has conducted his studies of jurisprudence and political science at the University of French in Brajzau (Freiburg my Braisgau) in Germany, and at Oxford (Great Britain), Munich (Germany).

In 1990 he passed his first state exam, and in 1994 the second state exam that enabled him to exercise his attorney's profession. In 1992, Judge Ambos was promoted, and in 2001 he gained professional training as a university lecture (both from Munich University). It has been widely published in the area of law and criminal procedure, equal rights and international criminal law.

Nina H. B. Jorgensen from Norway is a professor of international public law at the University of Southampton since 2019 and works as vice-Deciman of the Jurydic Faculty (research).

Prior to that, she was law professor (2014-2018) and law assistant (2010-2014) at Hong Kong Chinese University. Between 2001 and 2010, she has worked on various tasks at the Sierra Leone Special Court, including as senior lawyer for appeals and senior legal adviser to the Prosecutor's Office, as well as in the extraordinary rooms at the Cambodia Court, and at the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.

It has also worked for the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights in Warsaw as the legal adviser for tolerance and non-discrimination. It has also advised the UN and nongovernmental organisations on issues related to international criminal law. Judge Jergensen has a science degree from Oxford University and graduated from the University of Bristol (MB). She has been admitted to the Association of Lawyers of England and Wales in 1999 and has her license as a lawyer. It has widely published in the area of international criminal law and procedure rights.

Michel Picard from France is judge of the Court of Appeals in Paris since June 2013. From 2008 to 2013, she was a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

From 2007 to 2008, she was appointed a member of the Kosovo Human Rights Consultative Panel, and during the period 1996-2003, she headed the Human Rights Chamber in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In 2005, she was appointed an independent human rights expert in Uzbekistan.

She also worked for the Council of Europe as an expert on local legislation approach projects with the European for human rights in Macedonia, Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Judge Picard is a lawyer from the University of Paris. In 1992, she attended a court school in Bordeaux.

Otherwise, the third statuteial conference on the performance of the issue in Thaci's case, Wessels of others, will be held Tuesday of next week.