Albania to be tried at the Council of Europe court

TIRANA, July 6 – The European Court of Human Rights notified that it would try the case of an Albanian against its government.
The applicant, Arben Grori, is an Albanian national who was born in 1971. He is currently in Peqin High Security Prison (Albania) serving a 15-year prison sentence for international narcotics trafficking and a life sentence for murder and illegal possession of firearms, the latter offenses having been committed on Italian territory.
The case essentially concerns Grori’s complaint about the unlawfulness of his detention pending the outcome of domestic proceedings in Albania for the validation and enforcement of the life sentence imposed by the Italian courts in his absence.
He relies on Articles 5 Ǡ1 (right to liberty and security), 6 Ǡ1 (right to a fair trial), 7 (no punishment without law) and 2 of Protocol No.7 (right of appeal in criminal matters).
The applicant, suffering from multiple sclerosis, also complains about his inadequate medical treatment in prison, in breach of Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment), and that, his transfer to a civilian hospital in January 2008, as indicated by the European Court of Human Rights under Rule 39 (interim measures) of its Rules of Court, was delayed, in breach of Article 34 (right of individual petition).