Defendant's lawyer gets caught red-handed, lies again to cover up Veliaj

2026-06-19 15:47:00, Aktualitet CNA

Veliaj's defendant lawyer, Plarent Ndreca, has once again used the narrative of the glass partition to justify the non-presence of the mayor arrested on 13 charges for 5 serious criminal offenses in the GJKKO hearings.

Not to say that he is a coward and afraid to face the 13 serious criminal charges, the defendant's lawyer, Plarent Ndreca, tells us that Veliaj does not go to the sessions at the Criminal Court of Kosovo so that his dignity is not violated.

"Because Veliaj is a defendant. He has specific rights guaranteed by the Constitution and Mr. Veliaj is not coming to trial because of the golden cage, which is now turning the mosque into a golden cage, which he considers an infringement of human dignity, as the Helsinki Committee and the Strasbourg Court say. Veliaj has assessed that he should not come there and his dignity should not be violated, because his freedom has been violated enough. Whereas here Mr. Dado does not come as an individual, he comes as a representative of the Albanian state, as a character who has a public function and who must face the public as to how he was appointed and how he has carried out his duties. Mr. Veliaj has always been cooperative with the investigation and has accepted every measure and every investigation from the Prosecutor's Office."

This is simply a lie and a repeated scheme by the defendant duo Veliaj-Ndreca.

The glass barrier narrative has been debunked after the European Court of Human Rights itself confirmed that the glass barrier is a legitimate security measure and not a form of degrading treatment.

CNA has published the ECHR document, which clearly confirms that placing defendants behind glass partitions does not in itself involve an element of humiliation that reaches the minimum level of severity to constitute a violation, differentiating this security measure from metal cages.

EXCLUSIVE/ The document that "blows up" Erion Veliaj and his case
May 29, 14:13

Point 20 of the ECHR decision states that:

“The Court has already held that placing defendants behind glass partitions or in glass “docks” (cabins) does not in itself involve an element of humiliation sufficient to reach the minimum level of severity, as is the case with metal cages (see Yaroslav Belousov v. Russia, nos. 2653/13 and 60980/14, §§ 124 and 125, 4 October 2016). However, that level may be reached if the circumstances of their detention, taken as a whole, would cause them distress or hardship of an intensity exceeding the unavoidable level of suffering inherent in detention (see Kud?a v. Poland [GC], no. 30210/96, §§ 92-94, ECHR 2000-XI).”

Defendant's lawyer gets caught red-handed, lies again to cover up Veliaj

This European standard refutes narratives built on inaccurate foundations, proving that attempts to exploit this issue for political or media rhetoric do not stand up to legal reality.

The reality is that Erion Veliaj does not go to the Special Court because he is afraid of facing the facts and evidence that implicate him in corruption, abuse of office, laundering the proceeds of crime, concealing assets, and bringing prohibited items into the cell./ CNA