Equipo Nizkor - Law Nr. 8001 on Genocide and Crimes against Humanity Committed in Albania during Communist Rule for Political, Ideological and Religious Motives.

Law
Nr. 8001 dated September 22, 1995
ON GENOCIDE AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
COMMITTED IN ALBANIA DURING COMMUNIST RULE
FOR POLITICAL, IDEOLOGICAL AND RELIGIOUS MOTIVES

In reliance on article 16 of law nr. 7491 dated April 29, 1991 "On the major constitutional provisions," of articles 1, 3, 6, 18 of law nr. 7692 dated March 31, 1993 "On an addition to the major constitutional provisions" [Tr. note: the human rights chapter of the transitional Constitution] and of articles 67 and 74 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Albania, desiring to speed up criminal cases connected with crimes against humanity for political, ideological, class and religious motives organized and carried out by the communist state in violation of basic human rights and freedoms, through physical and psychological violence, making up, falsifying or manipulating facts, causing as a consequence murder, imprisonment, internment and exile as well as the mass destruction of religious institutions and objects,

The People's Assembly
Of the Republic of Albania

D e c i d e d:

Article 1

The organs of the Office of the Prosecutor, in compliance with the criminal and procedural provisions, are charged to begin immediately and with priority the investigation of activity connected with crimes against humanity committed in Albania during Communist rule for political, ideological and religious motives.

Article 2

The perpetrators of the activity contemplated in article 1 of this Law shall be investigated and charged according to today's code of criminal procedure.

Article 3

There may not be elected hereafter in the local and central organs of power nor be named to the high administration of the State, the judicial system and the mass media, until December 31, 2001 the perpetrators, promoters and implementers of the above crimes, who have been until March 31, 1991: former members of the Political Bureau and the Central Committee of the Albanian Party of Labor (and Albanian Communist Party), former ministers and former deputies of the People's Assembly, former members of the Presidential Council, former chairmen of the Supreme Court, former General Prosecutors, former first secretaries of the districts, former employees of State Security, former collaborators of State Security as well as those who were denouncing witnesses to the harm of defendants in political proceedings, with the exception of cases when they have acted against the official line and distanced themselves publicly.

Article 4

The Council of Ministers is charged to prepare legal acts and to approve regulations by December 15, 1995.

Article 5

This law is effective immediately.

Promulgated as decree nr. 1221, dated September 26, 1995 of the President of the Republic of Albania, Sali Berisha.

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Kathleen Imholz Translation
12/95

[Source: Official Journal of the Republic of Albania, Nr. 21/1995 (September), pp. 923-4 in Challenges to Democracy in Albania, Hearing Before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, 104th Congress, Second Session, March 14, 1996, U.S: Government Printing Office, Washington, 1996, pp. 98-99.]

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Law Nr. 8001 on Genocide and Crimes against Humanity Committed in Albania during Communist Rule for Political, Ideological and Religious Motives