{"id":8023,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/1970\/01\/01\/trial-of-the-deputies\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:53:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:53:05","slug":"trial-of-the-deputies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/trial-of-the-deputies\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial of the Deputies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the “<\/span><\/span>17 Nëntori<\/span><\/span>“<\/span> (“17 November)<\/span> cinema hall in Tirana, the process known as the “Trial of the Deputies” took place, one of the real massacres after a quick trial aimed at <\/span>eliminating<\/span> the political elite and <\/span>possible opponents<\/span> of the communist regime. The Council of the Supreme Military Court, consisting of Major Niko Ceta (<\/span>chairman<\/span>), Captain I Nexhat Hyseni (member) and Captain II Mustafa Iljazi (member), announced the sentence of the group of deputies of the First Legislation elected in 1945<\/span>.<\/span> In addition to the elected deputies, there were also other people who were involved in this entirely fictional trial before the execution and heavy prison sentences.<\/span> It was the period when Enver Hoxha and Koçi <\/span>Xoxe<\/span> were extending their dictation to the maximum by sowing terror and <\/span>eliminating<\/span> potential political opponents. Of those tried, 15 of them <\/span>were<\/span> sentenced to death and the form of execution was even more macabre, when they went to the rope and in front of the firing squad. The imprisonment and punishment of deputies and intellectuals with democratic and national orientations took place <\/span>at the moment<\/span> when the People’s Assembly had to ratify the Yugoslav Convention and pronounce the direction of the foreign and domestic policy as pro-eastern with the Soviet Union at the head. The convicts were: Shefqet Beja (sentenced to death, hanging), Sheh Ibrahim <\/span>Karbunara<\/span> sentenced <\/span>to death, hanging), Enver <\/span>Sazani<\/span> (sentenced to death, shooting), <\/span>Selaudin<\/span> Toto (sentenced to death, shooting), Irfan <\/span>Majuni<\/span> (sentenced to death , shooting), Sulo Ismail <\/span>Klosi<\/span> (sentenced to death, hanging), Riza Alizoti (sentenced to death, hanging), Salim <\/span>Kokolari<\/span> (sentenced to death, shooting), Muhamet Prishtina (sentenced to death, shooting), Tefik Deliallisi (sentenced to death, shooting), Hysen Shehu (sentenced to death, shooting), <\/span>Beqir<\/span> Çela (sentenced to death, shooting), Abdyl <\/span>Kokoshi<\/span> (sentenced to death, shooting), <\/span>Pertef<\/span> Karagjozi<\/span> (sentenced to death, shooting), <\/span>Agathkli<\/span> Xhitami<\/span> (sentenced to death, shooting), Ramazan Tabaku (sentenced to life imprisonment), <\/span>Gjovalin<\/span> Vlashi (sentenced to life imprisonment), Foto Bala (sentenced to life imprisonment), <\/span>Ramë<\/span> Marku (sentenced to life imprisonment), Rustem Sharra (sentenced to 20 years in prison), Xhevat Xhafa (sentenced to 20 years in prison), <\/span>Shefki<\/span> Minarolli<\/span> (sentenced to 20 years in prison) and Sulo <\/span>Konjari<\/span> (sentenced to 15 years in prison). <\/span><\/span>(In the photo: Moment from the court of deputies, 1947.)<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Text<\/strong>: <\/span><\/span>https:\/\/kujto.al\/ngjarje\/gjyqi-i-deputeteve-15-te-ekzekutuar-8-te-denuar-me-bur<\/span>g<\/span>\/<\/span><\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo<\/strong>: <\/span><\/span>© Albanian Telegraphic Archive<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Graphic processing<\/strong>: <\/span><\/span>AHCF<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the hall of the “17 N\u00ebntori” cinema in Tirana, the process known as the “Trial of the Deputies” took place. This was one of the true massacres following a swift trial aimed at eliminating the political elite and potential opponents of the communist regime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ngjarje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11787,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8023\/revisions\/11787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}