EXCLUSIVE-DECISION/ The Constitutional Court has found violations in the trial concerning Revenge The Constitutional Court backs ‘Revenge’ Shyti: Berisha, you failed disgracefully Leart and Orik Shyti react. The court’s decision, 17 pages: The right to due process was violated The news Yesterday the Constitutional Court, unanimously with nine votes in favor and none against, found violations in the trial of the members of the organization “Revenge for Justice” and sent the case to the Supreme Court for trial. Meanwhile, the Shyti brothers reacted immediately By Poli Hoxha Yesterday the Constitutional Court of Albania, through decision no. 47, no. 20 in the Main Register, unanimously with nine votes in favor and none against, found violations in the trial of the members of the organization “Revenge for Justice” and sent the case to the Supreme Court for trial. Meanwhile, the reaction of the Shyti brothers was immediate; they accuse Berisha of manipulating the evidence. THE DECISION The nine members of the Constitutional Court, Bashkim Dedja (chairman), Xhezair Zaganjori, Sokol Berberi, Sokol Sadushi, Vladimir Kristo, Vitore Tusha, Altina Xhoxhaj, Petrit Plloçi and Admir Thanza, in a 17-page reasoning, out of the six requests made by “Revenge for Justice,” accepted only two, but these give the case a different direction. In the photo: Orik Shyti and a facsimile of the decision of the Constitutional Court The reactions Rama’s tax cuts into PS businesses Page 2 BY ARBEN RROZHANI Thus the highest court of the Republic of Albania considered valid Orik Shyti’s claim that the decision of the Penal College of the Supreme Court, issued in September 2010, which removes Revenge for Justice’s right to appeal to this court, is unconstitutional. The Court also accepts that the highest court of the Republic of Albania considered valid Orik Shyti’s claim that the decision of the Penal College of the Supreme Court, issued in September 2010, which removes Revenge for Justice’s right to appeal to this court. The Court also sided with Shyti regarding “the violation of the constitutional right to a fair legal process as a result of the failure to adjudicate within a reasonable time”... Continues on page 11 In the photo: Orik Shyti and a facsimile of the decision of the Constitutional Court

Editorial By Admirina Peçi The League or the dead dog The League of Writers and Artists is like a dead dog. It smells terrible! That is what a poet told me, one of those whom the former colleagues would still remember fondly whenever they mentioned him. But while he remains withdrawn in his hatred for this “institution of crime,” others openly express their indignation. How did the Archive with the League’s files disappear? Was it negligence, or was it carefully directed? Was it burned in the stoves of the offices of homes, or hysterically behind Mount Dajti? Did it happen before the fall of the dictatorship, or after it? How important were these files? Did they contain all the mysteries of the punishments of writers and artists? These questions troubled us when we started this debate, in the first issue of “Shqiptarja.com” on 4 November 2011. Today Visar Zhiti’s account reveals another criminal dimension of the League After the publication of the photos, taken in the former Kinostudio, what remains today of the League’s archive was revealed: piles of books from the former libraries, the collection of newspapers, and sacks of unsorted documents. It was not the complete archive. This is also confirmed by the last chairman of the League, Hysen Sinani, who nevertheless testified that in his time he saw and leafed through some of the notebooks of minutes kept in the League. A series of questions were answered for our newspaper by the former secretary of the League for the visual arts, Kujtim Buza, who also recounted the punishments of Maks Velo, Ali Oseku and Edison Gjergo. He was contradicted the next day by the artist Arian Isufi, according to whom Buza is not telling the truth about the punishment of the artists. Today Visar Zhiti’s account reveals another criminal dimension of the League, leading us to believe that it may indeed be a dead dog, but its teeth remind us of the old illnesses and wounds that were opened there, beginning with its crime 66 years ago.

CONFERENCE Conference recommendations NATO is surprised: We told you we joined the Alliance, now you say we know By Anila Basha “We joined the Alliance, now we will achieve and build our goals when we have them.” This sentence, used by some low- or mid-level bureaucratic official in the Albanian army, appears to have alarmed NATO Alliance officials, who have also emphasized this expression in the recommendations they sent to the Armed Forces of the Republic of Albania and the Albanian government in August of this year, after... On pages 4-5

HONORED WITH AN AWARD Speaks at the Albanian-American congress Dioguardi’s wife: The January 21 killings are the fault of politics By Shirley DioGuardi Tonight I want to focus my comments on the fall of communism in Albania in 1992 and what has happened in the last twenty years. First of all, we must never forget the historic journey of former Congressman Joe DioGuardi to Tirana in 1990, as the first American official to enter Albania in more than fifty years. Their arrival after the fall of the wall of... On pages 8-9

Page 6 Bulqizë, the Canadians pull out: You don’t work like this anywhere Page 10 Police wages cut, unions: We will take it to Strasbourg

Page 13 Schools, Noli’s translation for libraries is disqualified Page 12 Lulzim Basha’s 100 days inaugurates Rama’s projects

Page 3 Sashenka Jonuzi is rewarded, 11 monthly salaries as a bonus Pages 14-15 Visar Zhiti: Dritëro Agolli did not save me from punishment