Prime Minister Edi Rama was on television show Opinion last night where he faced questions and engaged in debate with a panel of journalists. When facing questioning from journalist Klodiana Lala over a photograph showing him meeting with known criminal Ardian Capja, he became threatening and told her to shut up. An excerpt of the
The Kosovo media has reported that some of the tear gas possibly used against opposition protests in Albania was taken from the Kosovo Police. The use of tear gas against citizens and journalists during the 2019 Opposition Protests in Albania raised much criticism both locally and internationally, especially as the protests were not excessively violent.
Over the last two years, Prime Minister Edi Rama and some Socialist Party high officials have filed some 35 lawsuits against those they claim are defaming them, according to Voice of America. The majority of those accused of libel are opposition politicians, as well as journalists and civil society activists. The opposition has called such
On Friday, Judge Lazër Sallaku of the Court of Tirana decided to close the case on the privatization of Albania’s transmission system operator OShEE in 2007 after “no criminal grounds” were the . OShEE was bought by ČEZ Group, a Czech energy company. In 2017, the Socialist Party denounce the agreement between the Berisha Government
The second in a series of 52 interviews with Albanian women in the public sphere #52GraShqiptare Xheni Karaj 34 years old, one of Albania’s most prominent LGBTI activists and a feminist. She studied psychology at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Tirana and has been instrumental in the start and development of the LGBTI movement
Justice Minister Etilda Gjonaj has stated that the ministry and the government have no responsibility for the early release of life imprisoned prisoners such as Endrit Dokle and Lulzim Berisha. “The government and I as a minister have taken some measures to not only punish the case, but also to prevent such cases. If I
Fier Court judge Piro Sota has released criminal Sardian Sulejmani, a member of a notorious Durres gang. The decision was taken in October 2019, and Sulejmani has been free since then. He was charged with two counts of attempted assassination and murder and was sentenced to 25 years in prison in July 2014. Sota accepted
The Democratic Party (PD) denounced Prime Minister Edi Rama for giving his government’s support to the release from prison of some of the most dangerous criminals. In a press statement on Friday, PD General Secretary Gazmend Bardhi argued that released criminals secure votes for the ruling Socialist Party (PS) through intimidation of voters during elections.
Endrit Dokle, a gang member sentenced to life in prison for murder and being a member of a structured criminal organisation has been released on probation as per a decision by Kruja court judge Enkelejda Hoxha. Dokle, number two in a notorious Durres gang was arrested in 2004 and sentenced to life in a high-security
Police in Kosovo have arrested a woman after she praised Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a US airstrike last week, and stated that vengeance for the killing is an obligation. Ikballe Huduti-Berisha was arrested yesterday after she referred to Soleimani as a “martyr” and “great man”, and stated that “vengeance [for his killing]