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Human rights envoy criticizes Albania's handling of protests

by Llazar Semini
| December 16, 2020 8:33 AM

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — A top European human rights envoy on Wednesday said Albanian authorities should have shown restraint and avoided the use of excessive force in policing recent demonstrations over a man's fatal shooting by police enforcing a coronavirus curfew.

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