After returning from Strasbourg, the leader of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, announced that he informed the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe about human rights violations in Albania and the state's links with organized crime in the country. According to him, with the arrest and persecution of opposition leaders by the government of Prime Minister Rama, Albania surpassed even the authoritarian regime of Lukashenko in Belarus.
"I informed the esteemed audience of parliamentarians from all over Europe that Edi Rama arrested, or put on trial, the three leaders of the main opposition parties in the electoral year and took away the mandates of three others, keeps them under house arrest or keeps them in prison. There is no second country like Albania in these violations. Albania surpassed Lukashenko's Belarus and was somewhere on a par with a country like Tunisia or worse. In these meetings, I gave a brief history of the cannabization of Albania, with which the foundations of the narco-state were laid. Albania's opening to cocaine. The merging of the state with drugs and crime into a joint venture. Decision-making at all levels of organized crime in Albania. These were the main theses that I presented there, substantiated with documents and which I can say were shocking for the esteemed audience," Berisha said.
Berisha also stressed that he informed the anti-torture committee about the treatment in prison of PL leader Ilir Meta. He said he denounced the terrible conditions in prisons and the torture inflicted on prisoners, including a large number of young people who lose their lives as a result of drug poisoning.
"I had a special meeting at the anti-torture committee. It is the only committee of its kind, with strong ties to other institutions. I informed him about the dramatic situation of prisons and not only prisons, about the torture that is practiced in police stations, in cells. About the series of deaths of young Albanians like never before with the greatest potential poisoned by drugs. About the terrible fine that prisoners pay up to 2 thousand euros to have the most minimal conditions. Special attention was paid here to the public torture that they inflicted on the former president, former prime minister, former speaker of parliament, Ilir Meta."
Berisha stated that Albania has lost the principle of the presumption of innocence, "with 67% of prisoners being detained, an alarming figure that does not exist in any other country."
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