{"id":79449,"date":"2026-01-16T14:20:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T14:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/?p=79449"},"modified":"2026-01-16T14:20:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T14:20:52","slug":"sent-an-email-svecla-absent-again-from-tear-gas-court-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/sent-an-email-svecla-absent-again-from-tear-gas-court-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSent an email\u201d; Sve\u00e7la absent again from tear gas court hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Once again today, Acting Minister of Internal Affairs Xhelal Sve\u00e7la was not present at the court hearing regarding the use of tear gas in the Assembly in 2018, and the trial panel proposed that the proceedings against Xhelal Sve\u00e7la be separated.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Sve\u00e7la\u2019s lawyer, Laur Prenaj, justified the acting minister\u2019s absence and asked for the court\u2019s understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI ask the court to take into consideration and show understanding of the fact that my client holds a position of high responsibility as Acting Minister of Internal Affairs and cannot always be present or available to respond to court summons,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Judge Sabit Sadiku stated that Sve\u00e7la had informed the court via email that he was outside the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe sent an email; he is outside the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, former Vet\u00ebvendosje MPs Sali Zyba, Fitore Pacolli, and Drita Millaku were present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again today, Acting Minister of Internal Affairs Xhelal Sve\u00e7la was not present at the court hearing regarding the use of tear gas in the Assembly in 2018, and the trial panel proposed that the proceedings against Xhelal Sve\u00e7la be separated. Sve\u00e7la\u2019s lawyer, Laur Prenaj, justified the acting minister\u2019s absence and asked for the court\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":79450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,306,296],"tags":[1015],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79452,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79449\/revisions\/79452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}