18/11/1992
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Koha Jonë

18 November 1992

The Poliçan trial has ended

After the complete success of the notorious political trial «Poliçan ’92», in which the «criminals» were sentenced only to the period they had spent in pretrial detention, we are informed that the «arch-criminal» Ilir Meta, the organizer and mastermind of the «communist» revolt, was never summoned either for questioning or to court, despite all the uproar, parliamentary debates, and the lifting of immunity over this affair.(!) At the court hearing of «Poliçan ’92», the name of the «arch-criminal», the MP stripped of immunity, was mentioned only once. Why, then, was MP Meta’s immunity lifted? Ilir Meta’s accusers, Ministers Zhulali and Kopliku, can and should explain this.

Today in the Lezhë court, Nikollë Lesi and Blerim Çela face each other

IDRIZ BASHA Read on page 5 Listen to the sensational statements by four members of Blerim Çela’s list: Anton Preka, Gjovalin Preka, Besnik Toma, and Sanie Maliqi. One member of the list will make a statement that reveals the whole mystery of Mr. Blerim Çela’s forgeries carried out by his associates. Follow the proceedings of this trial, which will go down in history as the greatest comedy involving an official of the post-dictatorship era. Facing each other: a journalist without status and the press law, and the «fighter» against corruption implicated in the forging of signatures and false witnesses. Who will win: Justice or the party-state!?

READ IN THIS ISSUE

O time of transition, O time ... Mexhit Preçash and Mujo Buçpapash ALEKSANDËR FRANGAJ Read on pages 4–8 O my: We have Mao Zedong, we have Bush IDRIZ BASHA Read on page 5

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