NEHAT KULLA: I WANT FREEDOM BASHKIM DEDJA: RE-TRY IT
Court hearing: the chief judge and the female member voted in favor. Five other members voted against Kulla’s request. The 20-year prison sentence for the 1997 murder of Halim Gjuzi, the driver of former deputy minister Halit Shamata, remains in force
DOCUMENT/ The President of the Constitutional Court votes in favor of Tirana’s “strongman”
How 36,000 Albanians were expelled from Greece in 1922
“RILINDASI” SUPPLEMENT ► Pages 7, 15-22
RILINDASI
TRAGIC DISPLACEMENTS
The disappearance of 36,000 Albanians from Pindus and Epirus
How 36,000 Albanians were expelled from Greece in 1922
Athens government decision: pensions are taken away from 17,000 “Vorioepirote” Albanians
The last dinner of Shpëtim Karamuça
DEATH OF THE STRIKER
The last dinner of Shpëtim Karamuça
Report from the house of Perikli Sheqevi. The family and the compensation at stake
TIRANE
ARTEMISA HOXHA
Yesterday, former political prisoner Shpëtim Karamuça, 74, diagnosed with laryngeal cancer, passed away. He had been living for more than a year in Perikli Sheqevi’s house, in an environment with appalling conditions... ► Pages 2-3
10 years of Fiks Fare to fight corruption
FESTA NE POGRADEC
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10 years of Fiks Fare to fight corruption
BY ANILA BASHA
News
On Friday, the Constitutional Court dashed all of Nehat Kulla’s hopes of having his case sent for retrial. The President of the Court, Bashkim Dedja, and member Vitore Tusha voted in favor of the request by the former Tirana “strongman,” who has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
TIRANE
HABJON HASANI
On Friday, the Constitutional Court rejected the “general” request by Nehat Kulla... ► continues on page 9
The seats in Kukës and Berat, Meta against Berisha
LSI POSITION
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The seats in Kukës and Berat, Meta against Berisha
Petrit Vasili: PD-PS must unblock the CEC
Tow truck at work
Blog/ Astonishment
BY OLTION SPIRO
Tow truck at work
There is no socialist or democrat, Darwinist or creationist, atheist or deist, Inter supporter or Milan supporter, nostalgic or futurist, woman or man, young or old, who does not understand that it is far more likely for the world to end on 21 December than for those wrecks, who have this absurdity written across their foreheads, to actually be in service of those institutions.
The tow truck has become the closest friend of those who often roam the overfilled streets of Tirana. We see them everywhere, generally on the corners, we see them in the streets, fast and determined in... ► continues on page 6
2013, A YEAR FOR YOURSELF
BLOG/ PERIFERI
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2013, A YEAR FOR YOURSELF
BY ALBA MALLTEZI
Dritan Prifti, the “Santa Claus” with cows and roosters
GIFTS
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Dritan Prifti, the “Santa Claus” with cows and roosters
TEG tirana east gate
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Everything you want for the holidays you can find at TEG
More gifts at TEG!
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