• Home/
  • Document details

Criminal code of the Republic of Albania

Type Official document
Date published 01.01.1970
Author Parliament of the Republic of Albania
Description

In the fight against terrorism, the general provisions of Albania's legal framework are established to prevent and punish all kinds of crime, including terrorism. In accordance with the legislation of Albania, the legal provisions for the fight against terrorism are incorporated in penal law. Albania's Criminal Code has been undergoing reform since 2001. The new provision is amended in order to incorporate criminal offenses. Article 28/2 is amended as follows: a terrorist organization is a special form of criminal organization, composed of two or more persons who have a sustainable collaboration in time with the aim of committing terrorist acts with a purpose. Chapter VII of the Criminal Code contains more than 17 articles after the amendment. They express all the forms of terrorism, including: offenses with terrorist purposes, terrorist organizations, financing of terrorism, collecting funds for the financing of terrorism, recruitment of one or more persons for committing acts for terrorist purposes or terrorism financing, training for committing purposed terrorist acts, promotion, public and calling propaganda for the execution of activities and threats for the purposes of conducting terrorist acts, etc.

 

Download EN language