Youths and civil society protest in front of the Prime Minister’s Office against the agreement for Italian refugees in Albania

02/12/2024 15:40

The refugee camps established in Shengjin and Gjadra in northwestern Albania have become a reason for civil society activists in Italy and also in Albania to rise in protests against the deal and the human rights violations of the immigrants detained on the Italian shores.

Protesters in front of the Prime Minister’s Office building and then in front of the Italian embassy in Tirana called the agreement between the two countries ‘illegal’, an agreement that is meanwhiole being blocked by the Italian courts.

A day earlier, protesters were in Shengjin expressed their opposition to the establishment of refugee camps in Albania.

With banners reading “Rama-Meloni, partners in crime,” they condemned the cooperation between the governments of the two countries, emphasizing that this approach is contrary to the principles of human rights and the dignity of immigrants.

Currently, the reception centers in Shengjin and Gjadra are empty. The ship’s two voyages with 16 and eight migrants proved unsuccessful after Italian courts demanded the return of the migrants caught at sea.

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