The Council of Ministers has today approved the joint agreement with Great Britain for Albanian prisoners in England, who will be transferred to serve their sentences in their homeland.
This agreement is expected to be signed by both parties in September either by Prime Ministers Edi Rama and Rishi Sunak or by the British Minister of Justice with his Albanian counterpart Ulsi Manja.
"In support of Article 100 of the Constitution and Article 10 of Law No. 43/2016, "On International Agreements in the Republic of Albania", with the proposal of the Minister of Justice, the Council of Ministers decided:
The approval, in principle, of the agreement implementing the agreement, between the Republic of Albania and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, for the transfer of convicted persons, according to the text that is attached to this decision and is an integral part of it. This decision enters into force immediately." - said in VKM.
This agreement enables the return of those who received the right to transfer and those who have more than 4 years of sentence left. inmates will serve the remainder of their sentence near family.
Thus, 200 Albanian prisoners in prisons in England and Wales serving sentences of four years or more will return in the next two years to serve the remainder of their sentences in Albanian prisons.
Thanks to the agreement, the British side will pay the costs of housing the prisoners for the entire duration of their sentence in our country.