The elected mayor of Himarra was sentenced to two years in prison after an unprecedented, even for Albanian standards, staged trial - The government's next moves
Northern Epirus
The elected mayor of Himara speaks of a parody trial - "My crime is that we want to be the masters of our ancestral land", he says
Albanian PM's confrontation with Sakis Ioannidis, Greece's representative to the European Economic & Social Committee, at a workshop in Brussels - He spoke of Athens' "delusional" approach to the issue
Beleris speaks of political persecution - The trial continues on February 28th
Dozens of member of the ethnic Greek minority of Albania gathered outside the court that denied the mayor-elect to swear-in: "The court decision was orchestrated by Rama"
In October 2021 the prosecutor provocatively declared that Katsifas had...committed suicide, something that even the Albanian court didn't accept & re-opened the case
Police Director of Avlona allegedly took money to incriminate Beleris - Former Albanian Prime Minister's allegations about his successor Edi Rama
The elected mayor of Himara in Northern Epirus is still in jail with trumped up charges
"The only reason I'm in prison is the grabbing of the properties from the native Greek residents, on behalf of 'strategic investors' who are mostly friends of the government and the Prime Minister"
Albania has yet to be held accountable for the “velvet ethnic cleansing” of the indigenous Greek Minority of Albania