All legal deadlines for the socialist leader’s third-instance trial have been exceeded If Nano continues his prison life in Bënç of Tepelenë, one of his files continues to remain “imprisoned” in the archives of the secretary’s office of the Cassation Court. This concerns the file for the review of the sentence length under the new penal code. Although the deadline for examining and judging this case expired months ago according to the provisions governing it, no one has remembered Nano’s file, sent to Tepelenë by Prelë Martinit and then returned again to Tirana? page 2 Sanxhaku: “We do not set the date for the Cassation trial”

PAD suffers a “spillover” into the Adriatic Tritan Shehu as Darwin: “PD sees man in development and transformation” According to announcements made yesterday, a meeting of the Durrës branch of the Democratic Party decided “to consider lawful” the request of a group of members of the Democratic Alliance Party to leave that party. 200 PAD members have asked to return to the origin of their leaders in the PD. Regarding the people who left, Imami says that “they are people who belong to PD, they are people who by chance entered the Democratic Alliance”. page 3

Abaz Ermenji on trial Sued by veterans of LANÇ “Today they accuse me, precisely those who yesterday stained the entire territory of Albania with blood.” Thus stated yesterday to “KJ”, Abaz Ermenji, the leader of the Albanian ballists, whose reply comes immediately after the National Committee of the Organization of LANÇ has filed a complaint against him in the offices of the General Prosecutor’s Office. Having returned to Albania after many years living in France, Ermenji now appears to have been drawn into the so-called “antigenocidal punishment” process. page 3

The President’s toilet would have no importance for the regime at all, if people did not want his regime How much can the opposition convince the civil world of all the truths it sees and feels in political life? That is the opposition’s task: when power is doing a makeover, to tell the truth. The fact that the opposition is publicly troubled because the President’s toilet is getting the upper hand over the truths risks pushing the electorate into pessimism as well. Because hearing this, people then think that Europe listens only to the President, and swallows everything he says. This is the opposition’s apoliticism. page 4

The press is not dictated by the State Control After 6 years of English lessons, Çela learns the word “Gay” page 2

28.2 mothers died for every 100,000 births during 1994 page 5

Rape - 34 years in prison Korçë - A “forgotten” rape case, various charges, four defendants and more than 34 years in prison. This is the simplified balance sheet of a court proceeding concluded on Wednesday, when the fourth accused also could not avoid a cell. They are P.Taho, Sh.Demiri, G.Demiri and A.Bylykbashi, who together have served 34 years and two months in prison after committing sexual intercourse by force. In fact, the charges of “theft of state property” and “assault because of duty” also increased the prison terms for these individuals. According to the indictment, the घटना occurred about 3 years ago on the road near the village of Kremb[e?]. The victim V.K and her brother-in-law H.K were attacked on the road. After the companion of V.K was beaten, the aggressors, acting together, carried out sexual intercourse by force against her. It is precisely for this episode that two charges were brought, while the one for “theft of state property” also concerns these same persons. What is interesting is that the trial was conducted separately, since the defendants were caught at different times. First to be placed in the dock were P.Taho and Sh.Demiri, sentenced last year to 10 years and 6 months of imprisonment each. Under the old code and for the same offense, G.Demiri was further sentenced to 10 years. Thus the person arrested in March of this year, A.Bylykbashi, found himself alone before the court panel. After several hearings during which Bylykbashi maintained a denial stance - according to him, his accomplices blame him because he reported them to the police - a verdict was also issued for him. Under the charge of rape, the 24-year-old A.B was sentenced to 3 years and 1 more for theft, a milder sentence since he benefited from the New Penal Code. GËZIM ASHIMI