News Albania police: In Albania, Journalist’s Arrest for ‘Fake News’ Alarms Rights Groups
Media rights groups have called on Albania's police to explain the arrest of a journalist and two police officers for producing 'false information' for the purpose of denigrating state officials.
News Albania police: Albania’s ‘Police Vetting’ Criticised as Too Slow, Too Opaque
Albania has little to show from a police vetting process that the government said would “clean up” a force widely seen as corrupt and colluding in organised crime. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama ...
News Albania police: Man jailed after cannabis farm worth more than £100k uncovered in Wem
West Mercia Police carried out a warrant at a premises in High Street ... On Monday Bardhi Gurra, originally from Albania, was sentenced at Shrewsbury Crown Court to two years and four months after ...
News Albania police: Media: Kosovo police ban people with Serbian passports to enter Kosovo and Metohija
The decision of the Border Police came into effect on Monday and would affect citizens of central Serbia travelling to Albania and Montenegro via Kosovo who had only passports as identification ...
News Albania police: Coronation Street fans shocked as ‘human trafficker’ Jan is unmasked as an undercover police informant
Jan is an police informer! #Corrie #CoronationStreet ... During a meeting in Rachel's swish Mercedes, she told him: "There's a new group arriving next week - Albania via Poland. 15 of them. "We're ...
News Albania police: Police discover £100k cannabis farm in Trafford
Police discovered a £100k cannabis farm and a man looking after it, who may have been trafficked from Albania. The farm was discovered by officers on Saturday following a raid at a property on Atholl ...
News Albania police: Resurrection in Albania
Paranoia was the leitmotif of the regime. The Sigurimi, the secret police, were experts at bugging homes—it is estimated that every third citizen in Albania during this time spent time in a labor camp ...
News Albania police: Albanian police arrest Russian Daesh ‘fighter’
TIRANA: A Russian national accused of fighting for Daesh against Syrian government forces was arrested in Albania and will be extradited to Russia, Albanian police said on Friday. Police said the 34-year-old man, identified as R.M., who was born in and a resident of Norilsk in Russia, entered Albania illegally after a court in Russia’s Chechen Republic ruled in April 2015 he
News Albania police: Albanian Police Arrest Russian 'ISIS Fighter'
A Russian national accused of fighting for the ISIS militant group against Syrian government forces was arrested in Albania and will be extradited to Russia, Albanian police said on Friday. Police ...
News Albania police: AP Explains: Sudden importance of Albania's local elections
TIRANA, Albania (AP) - Albania’s local elections on Sunday are ... with some smaller leftist and center-right parties running against them in the others. Thousands of police officers will guard the ...
News Albania police: Albania heads into divisive local elections
Tirana, Albania - Albania's ruling Socialist Party is set to sweep ... five people were reportedly arrested on June 20 for resisting police efforts to open voting centres. The opposition DP and LSI ...
News Albania police: Albania police arrest Chinese allegedly tied to crime group
Albanian police say they have arrested a Chinese man wanted in his country for illegal earnings as part of an organized crime group. A statement Wednesday said following cooperation with Interpol Beijing, Interpol Tirana had arrested the man identified only as 25-year-old G.L. The suspect was probed
News Albania police: Three lions rescued in Albania sent to the Netherlands
Three lions, rescued in October from a private zoo in Albania where they were kept in "hellish" conditions were transported Tuesday to the Netherlands, an animal welfare organisation said. "After a temporary stay in the Tirana zoo, Lensi, Boby and Zhak will be in Felida Big Cat Centre
News Albania police: Albanian police arrest four over airport heist
TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania police say they have arrested four suspects over the theft of some 5 million euros ($5.6 million) from a passenger plane at the country's only international airport. In ...
News Albania police: Terror suspect wanted in Italy arrested in Albania
Police have arrested a 28-year old man in Albania following a request from Italy where he is sought for "terrorist activities". Suspect Bledar Ibrahimi was arrested in the central Albanian town of ...
