The issue of Freddy Beleris was urgently raised by the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, to his Albanian counterpart, Edi Rama, during the private meeting they had today, on the sidelines of the NATO Summit, which is being held in Vilnius.

According to Greek government sources, the Prime Minister emphasized the need to resolve the issue immediately, stressing that there is a question of Rule of Law in Albania.

The issue of the Rule of Law in Albania, after all, is one of the criteria for Albania’s accession to the EU.

Recently, an amendment of the EPP expressed “deep concern about the arrest of the elected mayor of Himara Freddy Beleris on the eve of the municipal elections in Albania and his continued pre-trial detention, which violates the presumption of innocence and prohibits him from assuming his duties as an elected mayor”.

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The amendment even emphasized that his pre-trial detention is absolutely connected with the respect of fundamental rights, with the property issue of the indigenous Ethnic Greek Minority in the Municipality of Himara and elsewhere in Norther Epirus (southern Albania) and the accusations of illegal expropriations by the Albanian authorities.

It is worth noting that the elected mayor Himara has been in prison for more than 50 days, with him denouncing the Rama government as a “regime of terror” attempting to hide evidence that demonstrates the seizure of properties of the Ethnic Greek Minority.