“Deliberate silence” – GJKKO–lawyers clash, Meta reacts from his cell: An unnecessary situation, caused by “Ramaforma”!

Ilir Meta has reacted today from prison over the clash between the First Instance Special Court against Corruption and Organised Crime (GJKKO) and the National Chamber of Advocacy, describing the situation as an unnecessary and avoidable conflict.

In a long reaction on Facebook, Meta raises concern over the postponement of dozens of hearings and the consequences that, according to him, this situation brings for regular legal processes, lawyers and citizens.

Meta also criticises the silence of Parliament and the government, calling for concrete intervention to resolve the institutional deadlock and for changes to the law on the legal profession. He claims the situation is undermining public trust in justice and calls for dialogue between the parties.

Referring also to his own case at the GJKKO, Meta says he has not missed a single hearing and has expressed his will for the trial to continue. He criticises the decision to suspend the pre-trial detention deadlines without appointing a court-appointed lawyer, linking the situation to what he calls “Ramaforma”.

Meta’s post:

“The escalation of the conflict of the First Instance GJKKO with the National Chamber of Advocacy has been completely not only unnecessary, but also avoidable, since the Regulation of the First Instance GJKKO was approved on 17 July 2026, made public on 31 July 2026 and entered into force on 1 September 2026.

Dozens of postponed trials, which are accompanied by delays in trials, undermining of regular legal processes, undermining of lawyers’ economic rights, but also of the state itself, which pays to escort detainees from district prisons to Tirana, besides the costs of accused citizens and their families.

But the continuation of the deliberate silence by Parliament and the Government speaks more than the conflict itself.

This deliberate silence also becomes sarcastic at this time when the Government lectures us on human rights and the importance of the role of lawyers in criminal processes.

Therefore Parliament can no longer remain indifferent, but must encourage dialogue between the parties and intervene concretely in the law on the legal profession in favour of regular judicial processes and the delivery of justice as soon as possible for the hundreds of thousands of files awaiting justice, to put an end to this deliberate, absurd, unreasonable chaos that undermines public trust in Justice.

This is my consistent public position, which has been accompanied by institutional actions by the Chair of the Freedom Party’s Parliamentary Group, Mr Tedi Blushi, since 24 September 2026.

While as an interested person (as I have expressed in writing and verbally before the First Instance GJKKO), I have not only taken part in every hearing, but have also expressed the clear will to continue the trial against me based on the Criminal Procedure Code.

Strangely, the Prosecutor requested the suspension of my pre-trial detention deadlines, but did not request that a court-appointed lawyer be assigned.

The Court, too, strangely accepts the Prosecutor’s absurd request, suspends the pre-trial detention deadlines, but does not appoint a court-appointed lawyer (according to the Criminal Procedure Code) precisely because of this institutional deadlock with a clear political direction.

This has nothing to do with the Justice Reform approved on 21 July 2016, but with its distortion into Ramaforma.

Therefore this deliberate conflict is merely a continuation of the intentional destruction of regular legal processes and, consequently, of the rule of law itself by Ramaforma.

Out of respect for public opinion, I want to clarify that from the first hearing of the preliminary trial until now, I have never missed a single court hearing and will never miss one.

Facing both Justice and dictatorship is not only my duty towards Albanian citizens; confrontation is in my very DNA.

Because of Ramaforma, the investigation that should have been secret is made public, while the trial that by law must be public is not only made secret, but also dragged out.”