The High Judicial Council invited former Supreme Court Judge Ardian Dvorani to submit his request to be appointed to the Court of Appeals.
In the announcement for the end of his term, the HJC states:
“The HJC decides to notify him of the right to be appointed as a judge in one of the country’s appellate courts.”
The law gives judges of the Supreme Court the right to serve as judges in the Court of Appeals when their term ends.
On June 11, the HJC decided to end the mandate of Judge Ardian Dvorani, arguing that his term ended after the three new members of the Supreme Court were appointed.
Dvorani was a communist era prosecutor who issued severe political sentences to opponents of the regime in Shkodra, including those who toppled Stalin’s statue in 1990.
His files were made public in 2018 and showed that he charged citizens with “terrorism” for the acts mentioned above. He requested a sentence of 15 years in prison for those individuals. Citizens were protesting against the regime and demanding democracy in Albania. The Communist regime fell a year later.
This alone should have excluded him from the judiciary yet the ongoing vetting process reconfirmed him.
