December 1994 Last night, a student demonstration in Tirana -Students from the faculties of Construction, Medicine and Physical Education protested against the lack of electricity and bread They are prevented from going out onto Skanderbeg Square -The deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Koha jonë,” Martin Leka, is forcibly detained. The Minister of the Interior intervenes to secure his release -Dozens of police officers equipped with rubber batons and hundreds of SHIK personnel faced the students on 21 Dhjetori Street. -Classes may be boycotted today to check the situation in the area, went there, but just as he (according to the students at the demonstration) began photographing the demonstrators, he was dragged away by a plainclothes officer and three police officers, who then put him in a ... the forces remained there, to prevent any possible surge of students toward the square or toward the “Studenti” campus. Also, a journalist from our newspaper who lives in the “Studenti” campus informed us that large numbers of police were

Dozens of police officers equipped with rubber batons and hundreds of SHIK personnel faced the students on 21 Dhjetori Street. Last night, from 19:30 until 21:36, students from the Faculty of Civil Engineering and the Faculty of Medicine demonstrated for two hours at the end of 21 Dhjetori Street. Their protest began in opposition to the restrictive measures taken by the Meksi Government regarding electricity. Students living in the dormitories of these two faculties had been without electricity and water for more than three days, and had little or very little food. No one had responded to their requests to resolve the problems through dialogue, so the students went out toward 21 Dhjetori Street with slogans such as “We want electricity,” “We want living conditions,” “Down with dictatorship,” “The DP comes to us only when it wants our votes,” etc. Large numbers of police officers and SHIK personnel immediately took up positions opposite them. The students tried to reach the capital’s main square to protest, but their effort, without the students from the “Studenti” campus, was overcome by the police. To be truthful, it must be said that no student had been detained or mistreated up to 22:37. At 20:15, went to check the situation on the scene, but as soon a police car while beating him. After telephone conversations between the editorial office and the Minister of the Interior, Mr. Agron Musaraj, requesting the journalist’s release, the minister very courteously promised us that the journalist would be released shortly. He was released at around 22:00. After the demonstration, at 21:36, the students got their electricity back, so the demonstration ended, while campus informed us that large numbers of police were also around the “Studenti” campus, to block any demonstration by its students in support of their colleagues from the faculties of Medicine and Construction. One of the demonstrators told us that tomorrow (that is, today, when this article is published) the students will not go to class, but will boycott classes, as they did in December 1990.

Yesterday in the capital—long queues for bread return The government that drained even the sky For the first time, the government’s decision was implemented immediately. Darkness enveloped the country Bread Factory, Tirana (pages 2, 4)