After the vote, Blerim Çela’s inspections may well be next in line Only after the defeat of November 6 has the ruling party tried to carry out a “mani pulite.” Breshtëri attacks the government and leaves the party untouched page 3

74 fewer ordinary prisoners in Tirana prison Today all prisoners who benefited from the draft amnesty law on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Liberation are being released from prison. At Tirana prison, only 74 of the 242 prisoners were released. The rest benefit from a one-third reduction in their sentences. These are the figures we learned late last night from the working group that reviewed the files in one of the prison offices. The director of Tirana prison, Mr. Shkelqim Musaraj, tells “Koha Jonë” that, under the approved draft law, those convicted of intentional homicide, rape, robbery and hostage-taking do not benefit. According to the prison director, the offenses for which the 74 people released had been convicted were theft, abuse of office, accidents, violations of service regulations and assault causing injury. From information we received from the working group sent by the Ministry of Justice, we learned that most of those released, who had been convicted of theft, were between 18 and 30 years old. There was also a number who were over fifty. Their release from Tirana prison began today at 8:00 in the morning. Many people were waiting outside the Tirana prison building on Saturday morning. In groups, they waited for their relatives who had benefited from the amnesty granted by the Albanian Parliament. The relatives of one of the prisoners due to be released were so happy that they had arrived a day early to welcome their son. With great difficulty, they said that he had been convicted of theft and had been serving his sentence for nine months. Even so, their eyes showed the anxiety that their son might start again. A little farther away, the father of another prisoner, his 23-year-old son, also convicted of theft, said that he could hardly believe his son would be released from prison. “I thought,” he said, “that only those who had been involved in politics would be released, but that the DP would think only of thieves—I could never have imagined that.” ARIAN ÇANI PHOTO N. EKONOMOPULOS

- Fatos Nano in Tepelena prison and Aleksandër Meksi in the Prime Minister’s office page 2

The minister gives a lesson as he falls Page 3 by Frok ÇUPI

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