FORMERLY PERSECUTED PEOPLE
Compensation, how the second installment is distributed
11,500 people will benefit, first those who are over 65 years old
Eduart Halimi: Around 200 people who suffered in psychiatry for political reasons will receive 2,000 lekë for each day of stay. PD, a new initiative for opening the files
By VALENTINA MADANI
The Minister of Justice, Eduart Halimi, announced yesterday that around 21,000 requests have so far been submitted to the offices of the Ministry of Justice, of which 4,000 requests are for barbed wire and internment; 11,500 requests have been approved and have received the first installment, 2,000 requests are excluded without trial. Minister Halimi informed that the Institute of the politically persecuted and their associations have requested an expansion of the scope of classification of the crimes of communism, while expressing the government’s will to fully compensate them. “We are determined to compensate the persecuted. Every person who has been hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital for political reasons will receive a sum of 2,000 lekë for each day of stay. The number of such cases is estimated at around 200 people. The persecuted have an extraordinary dialogue with the government...”
Continues on pages 2-3
Agasi: The PS leadership is incompetent, Twitter alone is not enough against Berisha
INTERVIEW/ Former MP: The left-wing coalition is shrinking
(In the photo:) Former PS MP Bardhyl Agasi. PS chairman Edi Rama with his wife, yesterday in Elbasan
“The largest coalition wins, PBDNJ and PDK are leaving us. Politics should not repeat the manipulation of the elections of May 26, ’96”
By DARINA TANUSHI
The former Socialist MP, Bardhyl Agasi, views with skepticism the situation in which the Socialist Party finds itself on the eve of the general elections. In an interview for “Gazeta Shqiptare”,...
On pages 4-5
SKENDER SALLAKU: HOW KADRI HAZBIU “ARRESTED” ME IN JANUARY ’63
DOSSIER BY FATOS VELIU
On pages 16-17
Visar Zhiti: 3 tons of gold flew from Albania to Brazil in ’85
“THE DOCTOR CORRECTED RD-NE”
On page 20
Greece and its Albanian neighbors
Opinion of the Day
By ALEXANDROS MALLIAS
The celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the independent state of Albania finds Greece’s political relations with our neighboring country in a state of...
Greece and its Albanian neighbors
Continues on pages 22-23
Court: 38 farmers in prison, they planted hashish
SHKODER/ NAMES OF THE ACCUSED
On page 18
Wounded commando: Today in Tiranë, I am happy
ALEKSANDER PECI
On page 7
Tourism, Durrës with only 1 hour of water a day
SEASON APPROACHING
On page 19
Day of Summer, a marathon of celebrations in Tiranë-Elbasan
THE CELEBRATION IS ENJOYED WITH “BIRRA KORÇA”
On pages 10-11