TIRANA, June 16 – Former Prime Minister Sali Berisha has called the decision of the Special Prosecution against Organized Crime and Corruption (SPAK) to stop publishing the testimonies of repentant defendants Nuredin Dumani and Henrik Hoxha as anti-constitutional and assassination against freedom of the media.
Through a Facebook post on Thursday Berisha considered the decision as a return to the laws of ‘propaganda’ during the dictatorship.
“The decision of (PM) Edi Rama with his Skap to sentence to 3 years in prison journalists who publish the evidence of government’s Duman is an unconstitutional act, police censorship, and assassinations against media freedom, undertaken to protect Edi Rama and his governors who have hundreds of hours of phone calls with government’s Dumans,” said Berisha, who is chairman of the Democratic Party.
According to him, this unprecedented decision in the last 30 years marks the return of the law of punishment for propaganda of the dictatorship of Enver Hoxha. “I condemn with the utmost force this extremely serious act of censorship and demand the immediate removal of Edi Rama’s mercenaries from the justice system.”
Further he called on journalists not to implement unconstitutional acts, but to remain invincible in defense of media freedom, and to publish every call to Edi Rama, Taulant Balla, Erion Veliaj, Damian Gjiknuri and every MP, local governmeet official, judge or prosecutor and any other official with serial killers, rapists, robbers of party gangs.
In conclusion Berisha launched an appeal to the international institutions for the protection of media freedom to condemn with the utmost severity this dangerous decision.
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