Albanian parliament ratifies deal for Hague convicts

TIRANA, Nov 9 – Last week the Albanian parliament ratified an agreement with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia accepting to take in convicted war criminals.
The deal was reached in September with Albania becoming the 17th country to allow people convicted by the Tribunal to serve their sentences elsewhere.
Nowadays 53 persons convicted by the Tribunal have either served or are serving their sentence in one of the states. Three convicts are awaiting transfer to one of the states to serve their sentence.
Serbia sent a protest note to the UN’s war crimes tribunal at The Hague after its decision to include Albania on the list of host countries for jailed convicts, expressing concern regarding over the country’s human rights and the state of its prisons.