“SECRET” DECISION: 3-YEAR SENTENCE FOR ANYONE WHO UNFAIRLY ACCUSES OFFICIALS OR MPs Report revealed: Direct proposal from Prime Minister Rama. In 2012, the Socialist Party voted by consensus for Berisha’s idea of “decriminalizing defamation” EDI RAMA’S DECISION: JAIL FOR ANYONE WHO DEFAMES THE GOVERNMENT Report revealed: Direct proposal from Prime Minister Rama. In 2012, the Socialist Party voted by consensus for Berisha’s idea of “decriminalizing defamation” By DARINA TANUSHI Prime Minister Edi Rama has now made his draft law a reality, the one that defines as a criminal offense defamation because of duty toward a high-ranking state official or an elected official. Unlike what had been agreed and voted 3 years earlier together with the majority of that time, the Democratic Party, to remove from the Criminal Code the offense of defamation against public officials, a new draft law has been sent to Parliament in recent days for “An amendment to Law No. 7895, dated 27.1.1995, ‘Criminal Code Continues on page 3

276 ROMA AND EGYPTIAN CHILDREN, IN CLASS ONLY FOR 1 FREE MEAL SCANDAL! SEGREGATION IN 2015, A SCHOOL IN KORÇË HAS ONLY 2 “WHITE” STUDENTS On page 8

ENTON NIKAJ SHOT, A FEW MONTHS AFTER BEING RELEASED ENTON NIKAJ SHOT, A FEW MONTHS AFTER BEING RELEASED Suspicion, a debt dispute “killed” the 30-year-old in Linzë On page 7

Opinion of the Day This year, no one expected that with Albania’s second progress report, since the country received candidate status ... Continues on page 20

By MIMOZA KOÇIU Is the distancing from the EU deliberate?

Opinion of the Day It is natural for the people’s critical sacred decisions to focus on the government’s performance, not to flesh out ... Continues on page 21

By JULIAN DEDA A few words about the opposition and around it…!

MUNICIPAL COUNCIL “OK” for paid parking, zero fee for residents On page 11

THE CHANGES Law: 2 percent life insurance for police officers and military personnel On page 11

The secret report by the head of the Tirana Security, Raqi Iftica, in 1972 Files, 3 actors: Fadil Paçrami attacks Shkodër Catholics, defends Muslims • “Fatos Arapi said: Will we become bourgeois with 10,000 lekë for a novel?” • “Shpëtim Kushta: The Opera Theatre is the property of Nikolla Zoraqi” • “Burimi says: Bujar Kapexhiu, devoted to ‘isms’ in painting” (In photo:) Enver Hoxha during a meeting with artists and writers Letter to the Central Committee of the PPSH: Here is what Sandër Banushi, Llazar Siliqi and Ndrek Luca said. Viktor Qruku, to Dritëroi: They make you great because you sing the praises of the PPSH By DASHNOR KALOÇI Little-known documents from the Archives of the State Security and the Central Committee of the PPSH, classified as “Top Secret”, with minutes of the meetings On pages 12-13

BY ALBANA TAHIRAJ “Albania, now the subject of scientific research” On page 14

UNION Teachers: Here are the testing blunders, the structure was outside the guidelines On page 9

NAMED LIST Gjirokastër, owners and issues in the AKKP archive On pages 16-18

INTERVIEW WITH THE POET Ilirian Zhupa: How censorship was survived during communism On page 19

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