THE POLITICAL PRISONER SELF-IMMOLATES
EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS EVENT MINUTE BY MINUTE / Gjergj Ndreca attempts suicide, in serious condition in hospital THE POLITICAL PRISONER SELF-IMMOLATES The hunger strikers: He made the decision when they called him a communist His brother Zef Ndreca’s account: Gjergji has no house, he has 6 mouths to feed. Wife Ina: I found out from my friends and went to the hospital. “A1Report” broadcasts the event exclusively, cited by world media
The hunger strikers to Arvizu: We will all burn like Gjergji
The dialogue with the ambassador is revealed: Live to fight another day
Ndreca’s statement: I believed Berisha like Christ
The life of the 51-year-old former prisoner, 15 years in prison for attempted escape
The news
The hunger striker, 51-year-old Gjergj Ndreca, tried yesterday to self-immolate on the 17th day of the hunger strike that continues in “Komuna e Parisit” in Tirana. In an interview with “Shqiptarja.com”, Zef Ndreca, the brother of the former political prisoner from the dictatorship era, says that Gjergji only asked for the economic compensation payment in order to find shelter for his wife and four children, but he was deceived by the government.
In a coma
Editorial
BY ANILA BASHA In a coma Gjergj Ndreca is not in a coma. Or rather, he may be only physically, in body, there fighting, as much with the economic strike, as with the desire to have more than one soul to turn against the government that he thinks is taking his life. Gjergj Ndreca is not in a coma, even though he is suffering from burns, among the memory of times he wants to leave behind, but has not managed to leave behind, and the mockingly taunting remarks of the prime minister that he is carrying out the strike at... continues on page 4
They cut Berisha’s speech short at the Council of Europe
President of the Council of Europe: Wonderful speech, but please wrap it up
FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY
TIRANA
JAKIN MARENA The speech of Prime Minister Sali Berisha yesterday in Strasbourg was interrupted in the 13th minute at the request of the head of the Council of Europe Thorbjorn... Page 6
TIRANA
ARTEMISA HOXHA Gjergj Ndreca tried yesterday morning to self-sacrifice by burning himself with gasoline. He had warned about it, because for many years the government had given no help to him and... continues on pages 2-3-4-5
We burned Gjergj Ndreca
Comment
BY ARBEN RROZHANI We burned Gjergj Ndreca The self-sacrifice of the hunger striker Gjergj Ndreca was yesterday the main headline in Albania. As well as in the world media. Prestigious media such as “Washington Post” and “Huffington Post” took the tragic footage filmed by A1 Report, as the former political prisoner Ndreca was burning, and later added his face scorched by flames, and wrapped in bandages in the ward of the plastic surgery unit at QSUT. The other self-immolated one who... continues on page 3
Shpëtim Gjika: Independence cannot be made with birds and hens
REVOLTA
Pages 8-9 Shpëtim Gjika: Independence cannot be made with birds and hens
The Gjergj Tushaj file, here is how the documents were forged
COURT
Pages 16-17 The Gjergj Tushaj file, here is how the documents were forged
Bode: We have USD 80 million unpaid to businesses
DEBATES IN THE ECONOMY
Page 15 Bode: We have USD 80 million unpaid to businesses
Cham Albanians, Dashamir Tahiri: The Vlora list starts with me
MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT
Page 7 Cham Albanians, Dashamir Tahiri: The Vlora list starts with me
In the photo: Gjergj Ndreca covered in flames (photo taken from TV A1 Report)
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