LATEST POSTS

• 07/08/2015in Declarations & Press Releases

  Albanian Helsinki Committee has participated in the 6th World Congress, “Against the Death Penalty” organized in Oslo on 21-23 June 2016

  This activity was organized since in 2001 with the aim that together representatives of civil society, politicians, lawyers and journalists from all around the world, can develop new strategies for abolishment of death penalty in their respective countries where is applicable. It turns out that 140 countries have abolished death penalty. Since the ...
• 23/04/2025in 0 - News, Declarations & Press Releases

  PRESS STATEMENT – PHYSICAL VIOLENCE EXERCISED ON THE MINOR ACCOMPANIED IN POLICE COMMISSARIAT NO. 1 (TIRANA) SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED WITH PRIORITY AND SERIOUSNESS

  On 17.04.2025, citizens O.Z. and E.G., inhabitants in Tirana, parents of 14-year-old minor J.G. notified the Albanian Helsinki Committee (AHC) that on 12.04.2025, at the area near the Tirana Lake Hill, their son J.G. had been accompanied by officers of Police Commissariat no. 1, Tirana, because he had been caught throwing firecrackers. In their com...
• 25/03/2025in Declarations & Press Releases

  PRESS STATEMENT – SERIOUS INCIDENT AT DETENTION ROOMS SECTOR IN THE REGIONAL DIRECTORY

  According to media reports from 13.03.2025, citizen D.G. committed suicide in the Detention Rooms Sector at the Tirana Regional Police Directory. On the basis of these reports, on 17.03.2025, through a group of observers, AHC verified on site the circumstances of this suicide. Following the monitoring, it resulted that: Citizen D.G. had been detain...