Arbëori signs 9 amendments: the death penalty is blocked At 11:30 yesterday morning, the Parliamentary Assembly unanimously decided that Albania should be in the Council of Europe. In this way, a three-year diplomatic battle by Albania with this body came to a successful end. But yesterday there was also a condition: Amendment 9 of the European Socialist Group stated that the Council of Europe expresses the hope that Albania will denounce the articles of the Penal Code that provide for the death penalty and will establish a moratorium on executions. The amendment was accepted and after several discussions Albania signed, pledging that it "will examine, in due time, the possibility of introducing a moratorium". From Strasbourg, Armand Mero On page 3

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Helsinki’s strong protest TIRANË.- The National Information Service proposes, through a law, to obtain powers that make it a secret police. Such powers, according to the PS parliamentary group, include civilian oversight of the activity of this institution, suspicious surveillance, and accountability before state bodies. Other matters also concern civilian control over its activity. These violations, socialist parliamentary group deputy chairman Edi Rama accuses, have been made clear in the content of the draft law. "This draft law gives SHIK the right to interfere in a person's private life, to tap telephone conversations, to keep private premises under surveillance, to search homes, to use weapons, to arrest for 10 hours, and even to conduct preliminary investigations". According to him, all SHIK activity is controlled and not regulated by any institution. "This government has set up a secret police, given it broad powers, taken it out of the control of the judiciary and through this force opposed the rule of law". According to the Helsinki deputy chairman, the group has viewed the work against citizens with concern and has addressed a letter to the President of the Republic, the Speaker of the People’s Assembly and the prime minister. On page 5

This is how the EBRD will help Albania OLIVER DESCAMPS, Deputy Director for Albania at the European Bank OLIVER DESCAMPS, Deputy Director for Albania at the European Bank SIGNED COMMITMENTS OF THE ARBËNOR 1. Abolition of the death penalty In a decision taken today, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has requested a series of measures for Albania. Leading figures of the Albanian state have signed the following commitments: 2. Protocol 6 To sign and ratify, no later than one year after joining the Council of Europe, Protocol 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, relating to the abolition of the death penalty in peacetime. 3. To establish a moratorium on all executions of the population in conflict situations 4. To establish an administrative court 5. Independence of the judiciary The independence of the judiciary, the appointment and dismissal of prosecutors will be carried out according to the law. On page 3

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A student’s loser consolation TIRANË.- Almost nothing was known in the new student’s home. Living in isolation with her only son, a woman with short, cut red hair answers the journalist’s questions with difficulty. She says she learned of her son’s problem, which was leaving him without school, almost by chance. In the director’s office where she had gone, they told her that her son had committed a grave offense. "They asked him to leave." The account continues with details of a conflict that began over a grade, a harsh reaction, and the consequences that brought the matter to the brink of scandal. Further on, the article describes how a teacher, a student and her relatives became involved in a chain of tensions, with accusations and counter-accusations, while the case took on public dimensions. On page 7

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On page 8 Shkodër - "This month Germans stopped near the bus station and took a 40-year-old man. Then several blue uniforms approached, taking the German woman with them. Behind them and under the eyes of hundreds of citizens passed also..." [?]

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