All of Albin Kurt's battles with prison

Four of the last 20 years, Vetevendosje leader Albin Kurti has spent behind bars or in house arrest.

Since 2005, when he founded the Vetevendosje Movement, Kurt was often arrested because of his political activities, which in most cases were a challenge to managed by law bodies.

Vetevendosje MP has so far been arrested about 20 times while staying in various prisons.

His first long - term imprisonment had been held during and after the war. In 1999 Kurti was arrested by Serbian police to be held two years and seven months and ten days in prison in Serbia.

Prior to that, he had been arrested even on October 1st 1997, in the protest of Albanian students for the release of university objects by the Milosevic regime.

He was released in 2001 as his first arrest by Kosovo institutions occurs five years later.

In a protest held in June 2006, Kurti was arrested and kept 10 days in jail.

A year later after the February 10th 2007 protest, Albin Kurti was arrested and held for five months in prison and five months in house arrest.

Under a court warrant, Albin Kurti was again arrested the day he held the conference where he declared that the Vetevendosje Movement, as civic initiative, would participate in the election.

On June 15, 2010, Kurti was sentenced to 9 months in prison by the tribunal as accused of events on February 10, 2007, when two protesters were killed by UNMIK special units in Pristina's main square.

By the time from 2010 to November 2015, Kurti was accompanied several times in the police on charges of participating in protests and throwing tear gas at Kosovo's Parliament hearings as a controversial move against Kosovo government agreements with Serbia and Montenegro.

His upcoming arrest occurred on a historic date. In the appearance of the opposition on November 28, 2015, Albin Kurti, who was on the run, appeared in the speaker and delivered a speech at “Zahir Pajaziti” Square.

In an action in which police used force while protesters the stones, shortly after this event, Kosovo police arrested Albin Kurti at Vetevendosje headquarters. He had been sent from there to Dys prison where he stayed for three and a half weeks.

Two years later, on November 23rd 2017, Kurti was again arrested in front of the Kosovo Parliament building, after a few days earlier he had not submitted to the court to respond to charges of dropping tear gas. He was released, but under house arrest on November 25th.