Denunciation of prison conditions: Ilir Meta is not even allowed to meet his sick parents!

2026-04-29 15:35:06Politikë SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Denunciation of prison conditions: Ilir Meta is not even allowed to meet his

Democratic Party MP, Klevis Balliu, had a meeting with Ilir Meta, leader of the Freedom Party, where he was briefed on the conditions in which Meta is being held, raising concerns about his treatment in prison.

According to the MP, the signaling system to call the police in Meta's cell does not even function, while he emphasized that there are also restrictions on his communication with representatives of the Freedom Party and with his sick parents.

"Today I was given the opportunity to both inspect and meet with President Ilir Meta. I wanted to explain some things to him, but he ended up explaining them to me, because he is clearer than us who are here outside. I want to say that the communist level is unchangeable, no matter how many years pass. They try with various games to make President Meta's conditions difficult.

I can tell you, for example, that the only cell in the entire prison where the signal to call the police officer does not work, for a reason that the prisoner may have, the only cell where the signal does not work and does not work is Ilir Meta's cell. That is, that alone is enough to show you how meticulously these people deal with these issues.

But Ilir Meta, for this he was very clear, he faces everything and that cage that they are trying to keep him in with difficulty during the trial. What Ilir Meta is asking for is what is the minimum for every country in the world, that he has the opportunity to communicate with his deputies as party leader, as former president, as former prime minister, as former speaker of the assembly, to have communication with his deputies. Today he also has to do it through someone else with the chairman of the parliamentary group of the Freedom Party, Tedi Blushi, because they do not allow him to speak directly.

I can tell you something that is also personal, for 19 months Ilir Meta has not met his parents who are sick, because here everything is done with a list that is extremely limited, because in the meantime he needs to put the lawyer and the deputies on the list to inform them, to take political action and everything else. And the only thing he asks for is that the hearings be public, so that citizens can hear where Ilir Meta has stolen from them, even a cent of the Albanian state.

And he wants this to be public. Now a man who has problems with the law, the only thing he doesn't want is for the hearings to be public, he wants them to be secret. And that's why the government is doing its best, Edi Rama is doing its best, for the court hearings to be secret. Not only that, but it's the only case, I'm reminding you here of Navalny. Navalny was given the opportunity to give an interview in prison in Siberia. He was given the opportunity to give an interview. Ilir Meta is not given this opportunity. It's a unique case in the world. Unique case. Navalny in Russia, what these people are telling us about the dictatorship and all that, Navalny was given the opportunity to give an interview. Ilir Meta is not given the opportunity to give an interview, and he wants interviews with journalists who are registered. So that everyone has the opportunity to hear what's happening.

But the government, because they have not found it, and I guarantee you this, in addition to slandering cases that have been tried not only in Albania but also in the international arena, such as the ÇEZ-DIA case, they bring it back with some empty claims from some people, who themselves were part of those structures and have never mentioned the name of Ilir Meta. And today this man remains there. In violation of the law, in violation of all deadlines. And the only thing he asks for is transparency with the citizens.

"Transparency so that citizens know what he is here for, that he is not here for theft, he is here to denounce Edi Rama's corrupt affairs. As many citizens are suffering today, even at their expense, as you have seen citizens protesting, but today there is also Ilir Meta. Who has been in custody for almost 19 months, almost two years, it has been almost two years that Ilir Meta, the President of the Republic, the Speaker of the Parliament and the Prime Minister of the country, has been in detention, in prison without even a single charge," he said.


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