4 minutes agoHow many years of prison is Albanian convicted after photographing vote during elections
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)The Tirana court has first marked prison sentences for photography. It's about a 21-year-old in the capital that photographed his vote in the June 25th election. He was sentenced to 2 months in prison, but will eventually face an alternative sentence, working 80 hours in public interest. [...]
The Tirana court has first marked prison sentences for photography.
It's about a 21-year-old in the capital that photographed his vote in the June 25th election. He was sentenced to 2 months in prison, but will eventually face an alternative sentence, working 80 hours in public interest.
The legal change made ahead of the 25 June 2017 parliamentary elections for the prison sentence of persons photographing the ballot sheet has not been taken seriously by a 21-year-old in Tirana. He has not hesitated to break the law, and he will already suffer the consequences.
Denis Nuhaj is the first person to be sentenced to prison by the Court of Tirana on charges of “voting secrecy”. At the conclusion of a short-term judgment, the young man has been sentenced to 2 months' removal of freedom. Noah was judged in a state of peace, and he would not be able to come to his cell except for that. Eventually, the court has replaced the prison sentence with an alternative sentence, under which the 21-year-old is obliged to perform 80 hours of unpaid public interest.
Under the verdict announced by Judge Ardiana Beraj, a copy of which was provided by “ABCenes” The new one has been banned on election day. It is marked by the head of the polling centre set up at the school's “Freedom Witnesses” in the capital. He is also trapped in the quality of the material evidence, an iPhone telephone apartment with which he photographed his ballot sheet. Before the re-investigators, the young man claimed to vote for the first time and did not know that the photographing of the vote was a criminal offence. He stressed that he had not taken the picture for any material gain.
Severe measures against election crimes have been sanctioned in Article 327 of the Penal Code. According to this article, photographing or filming of the ballot sheet and showing it to other people constitutes criminal acts and sentenced to prison for between 3 months and 3 years. /abcnews. al
