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Former Democratic Party MP Ervin Salianji has shared for the first time his experiences from his time in Fier prison. Invited to the show "This Week" on News24, Salianji spoke about the harsh conditions in the cell and what he considers an injustice that led him to prison.
He described his imprisonment as a profound human challenge, but also as a "political medal," which, he said, strengthened his convictions. Salianji also revealed that he will soon publish a book detailing his prison experience.
"I don't need to have a post to continue my public activity. My sentence has consequences, because for 5 years I can't even be an MP. But from a political perspective, political sentence is a medal for me. We can have a memorial museum in the DP for all the servants of the regime, who, in violation of the law, make decisions that shame Albania, as a country that cannot create standards. The hours in the cell are also counted. I was sentenced for false reporting, without reporting at all. They didn't even find me guilty of corruption, for anything. They put me in prison because I was spoiling their work for the elections. The first day, for every person who ends up in a cell, is a difficult moment in a person's life, even though I know you have massive support, and there was agreement across the political spectrum that it was an unjust sentence.
"What weighs you down the most in prison is the injustice of justice. I think I have a strong personality and I haven't had any problems. I stayed in the cell, I wrote, I reacted. There you understand that there is no water and you have to wash yourself with cans. I will describe these in detail in a book. From a human point of view, the staff in the Fier prison were professional people. The situations are different from those outside. You have to write by hand, watch a small TV. In the first days you look for where the phone is, because you are used to it instinctively, now it impresses me that I have the phone. So, from the beginning, a person starts to get used to the situation, even if it is difficult. The reception was good, people shouted my name, they shouted "Rama go away", this was something good, because you understand that even the citizens who have been convicted, some rightly and some wrongly, have understood that my imprisonment was unjust," said Salianji.
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