Abdulla Rami was born in Tatzat, Delvinë, a jurist, philosopher, and translator. He began his early years of schooling in Egypt and completed them in the 1920s in Delvinë. From 1927 to 1931, he studied at the French high school in Korçë, where he graduated in philosophy. After serving as an educator in Fier, Përmet, and Delvinë, from 1931 to 1936, he continued his studies at the Faculty of Law at the University of Montpellier, France, and graduated in jurisprudence. In July 1940, he was appointed as a judge in Përmet and later in Konispol, and two years later, as a first-class judge in the legal administration of Gjilan, Kosovo. In September 1943, he supported and endorsed the Mukja Conference, defending the ideal of national unity for a free and ethnic Albania. He was one of the prominent representatives of the “Balli Kombëtar” organization for the Gjirokastër region and openly opposed the spread of communist ideas in Albania. On December 16, 1944, he was arrested as an opponent of the communist regime and initially sentenced to life imprisonment, later to thirty years in prison, of which he served eighteen years in the Burrel Prison. After his release, he was exiled to Gosë, Kavajë. He was denied the right to practice as a jurist and judge and was forced to work as a manual laborer until the end of his life. He translated works by French and English authors, such as Victor Hugo, Jean-Marie Guyau, Clarence Dey, Henry Van Dyke, William Ernest Henley, Lord Byron, James Montgomery, Walter Scott, Emily Jane Brontë, William Johnson Cory, and Andre Chénier. On February 19, 1996, the President of the Republic of Albania decorated him with the title “Martyr of Democracy.”. (In the photo: Abdulla Rami)
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