Topic
Protest
7 stories
- CourtsTirana court releases 18 protesters under obligation to report; 271 arrested in seven days of protestsAccording to Euronews Albania, the arrests were deemed lawful but the court did not order jail; a day earlier the same measure had been imposed on 22 others.
- PoliceDay 9 of the protest: Molotov cocktails at the Prime Minister's Office and burned chairs, but the evening passes without major clashesAfter hours of calm, several Molotov cocktails were thrown at the government building around 6 p.m.; the water cannon was used only once and protesters then moved toward Skanderbeg Square.
- PoliceTuesday's protest: 11 arrested, including two minors; 33-year-old held over attack on Police Station No. 3Tirana police also charged seven people without detention and identified one of the suspects in the attack with Molotov cocktails and stones on the police station, in which 10 officers were injured.
- PoliceReporters Without Borders: Journalists beaten, detained and footage deleted by police during protestsRSF lists cases of journalists attacked in Tirana, from a News24 reporter physically assaulted to an AP photojournalist taken away by force.
- OpinionViolence should not be rewarded, and an investigation should not be put offA promise to compensate every convicted protester and silence over an independent investigation of the police are two ways of prolonging the same crisis.
- OpinionThe courts are not a party to the protestThe fire inside the Supreme Court and the prime minister's harsh words against judges strike the same institution from two sides.
- OpinionAn empty lecture hall is no victory for anyoneThe lecturers' open-ended boycott sends a strong signal, but a signal with no deadline and no clear address risks punishing the very students it claims to defend.