The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has ruled that Albania violated the rights of former RTSH director Thoma Gëllçi by keeping him in detention for a long period without sufficient legal grounds.
In its decision, Strasbourg considers it unfair to keep Gëllçi, who was sentenced to 1 year and 6 months in prison for abuse of office in connection with an additional contract for the purchase of equipment for the RTSH Agro channel, in pre-trial detention for more than seven months.
The news was announced by Gëllç's lawyer himself , while the decision was also published on the website of the European Court of Human Rights.
Reaction of Thoma Gëllçi's lawyer:
The Strasbourg Court ruled in favor of Thoma Gellci today and confirmed that his arrest was unlawful.
Arrests have become bread and butter for SPAK (and not only), who are more interested in showing off the daily television news circus of arrests and beheadings than respecting European standards.
Thoma Gellci, former director of RTSH, was arrested in October 2021 on charges of abuse of office in connection with a tender. He was placed in detention by decision of the GJKKO, claiming that there was reasonable suspicion of his involvement in illegal actions.

The Strasbourg Court found that the arguments for the arrest were unsupported and very general.
SPAK did not provide concrete evidence as to what evidence should have been collected and why it had not been collected earlier, and there was no risk of flight. The Strasbourg court added that the extension of the detention was unjustified, as the investigative authorities did not show "special care" in the investigation.
According to the Strasbourg Court, Albania violated the Convention by keeping Gelci in detention for an unjustified period and without providing evidence.
Considering it an important moral victory, Strasbourg offered a symbolic amount of moral compensation, but without forgetting to also charge the state with Gelci's legal costs.
Now the battle will continue in our courts to restore European justice that was distorted by SPAK's revolutionary need, with the open support of the governing majority.
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The State Attorney's Office, which reports directly to the Prime Minister, fought hard to prevent Gelc from winning this moral case in Strasbourg, insisting that the arrest was regular and based on evidence.
While today the Prime Minister is concerned about arrest standards when SPAK, a monstrosity produced by his political spirit, has begun to saw branches close to the Prime Minister himself.
Now, as the lawyer who ate the world for three and a half years to fight the united devil-fools of SPAK and the government, I invite him to use the Gelci precedent in Strasbourg for his own "eye to eye", but on the condition that he agrees to lick what his subordinates, state lawyers, have spit out so far against Thoma Gelci.