Protesters surround parliament

The revolt over the vote intensifies. Protesting again today Angry demonstrators set a car on fire on page 3

MPs panic and abandon the session

Members of the governing coalition have panicked and abandoned yesterday’s parliamentary session. This happened after demonstrators surrounded the headquarters of the Assembly of Albania in protest against the manipulation of votes on 1 October.

Protests and pluralist society

By Bardhyl LONDO The opposition’s protests have been continuing for days, and it seems they will continue for a long time, because both sides are entrenched in their positions and have no intention of reaching an agreement. The least one would expect is at least an attempt by the government to officially learn the opposition’s demands and then state its position. But the government did not even perform this formal act, which is accepted by all the ethics and morals of global coexistence between government and opposition. on page 5

Shocking facts about violence against children

The police and SHIK continue their terror against peaceful protesters Dozens and hundreds of peaceful protesters, most of them under the age of 16, have ended up in the cells of police stations in the capital after being beaten and mistreated on page 4

The government’s terror is radicalizing the protests

Young people brutalized by the police call for resistance on page 7

Shkodra students, soon to protest

on page 6

Students and professors abandon the lecture halls

The Faculty of Economics is flooded on page 18

Tropojë, PD secretary arrested

on page 16

Municipal mayor spends over 14 hours at the police station

on page 7

SPECIAL

Report of the opposition parliamentary parties on the manipulation of the electoral process in the local elections of 1 October 2000 in Albania supplement in eight pages - pp. 8–15