The report on the violation of Human Rights will be presented later Ethem Ruka, the Socialist delegate, speaks after returning from the CoE “All the structures of the Council of Europe, starting from President Martinez, had full knowledge of what has happened in Albania in recent months with the trial, from the siege to the elimination of Brozi,” says Etem Ruka, a member of the Albanian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and Socialist MP, after returning from Strasbourg. The first issue discussed in the opening session of the Assembly of the Council of Europe was the Albanian delegation. Secondly, a deputy from the PSD was also supposed to be part of the delegation, but Mr. Pulaha refused this. The name of Ruzhdi Pulaha as a member of Albania’s permanent delegation to the Council of Europe was arbitrarily assigned by Pjetër Arbnori and the PD. “After Mr. Martinez’s greeting to the new members of the Assembly, the chairman of the Socialist group, Shider, protested and underscored the irregularities in the Albanian delegation. page 3

A low slander, a dirty intrigue to create confusion page 5

The PS leadership in Durrës calls for criminal proceedings against the Police Station chief After the PS rally in Durrës Three people ended up in handcuffs on Monday, immediately after the Socialists’ rally in Durrës. Vladimir Muça, 24, a resident of District 6, Gazmend Manushti, 28, from the village of Koxhas in Shijak, and Taip Isufi, 56, from District 18, were escorted by several plainclothes officers to the isolation rooms of the Durrës police station between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Monday evening. According to the reports filed by the plainclothes policemen, the three aforementioned persons were arrested on the charge of “defamation of the president” under Article 241, after chanting at the PS rally in the sports palace: “Down with the President.” page 2

Handing over power is making Berisha’s party nervous When the governed have reached this point, that is, the moment when at the top of the state pyramid they have a hot citizen; hot-blooded, hot in speech, hot in movement, then here a signal is knocking that is beyond control. Rarely in the history of peoples has a hot head managed to rise all the way to the top, but in all such cases true catastrophe has occurred. page 4

They had attempted to steal speedboats CORFU - The police on the Greek island of Corfu detained the Albanians Murat E., Teme Sh. and Arben Sh. two days ago. The three Albanian citizens living in the Sarandë district were detained in the port of the island of Corfu while they were trying to steal several speedboats that were moored in one of the harbors of the tourist island, local Greek media reported. Preliminary investigations showed that the three Albanian defendants, before being detained by the police, had also stolen 6 other speedboats. The successive thefts of speedboats on the island of Corfu began three years ago, at the same time that the trafficking of clandestine migrants from the city of Sarandë to the Greek island also began. ILIR BABARAMO

20 kg of explosives seriously injure the President, kill his driver and injure 5 passersby Yesterday in Skopje page 7 President Gligorov’s car and what remained of the parked car bomb after yesterday’s explosion

PDD launches the election campaign page 2