{"id":118652,"date":"2024-06-12T11:01:57","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T11:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globeecho.com\/ar\/politics\/rewrite-this-title-in-arabic-from-albanian-and-hungarian-prisons-to-eu-parliament-meet-the-jailed-meps\/"},"modified":"2024-06-12T11:01:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T11:01:57","slug":"rewrite-this-title-in-arabic-from-albanian-and-hungarian-prisons-to-eu-parliament-meet-the-jailed-meps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/politics\/rewrite-this-title-in-arabic-from-albanian-and-hungarian-prisons-to-eu-parliament-meet-the-jailed-meps\/","title":{"rendered":"rewrite this title in Arabic From Albanian and Hungarian prisons to EU Parliament: Meet the jailed MEPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic<br \/>\n        Freshly elected Ilaria Salis and Fredi Beleri may prove a thorn in the side of Hungary and Albania, as supposedly political charges raise questions over the rule of law.<br \/>\n    ADVERTISEMENTThe roster of 720 MEPs elected this week includes two who may be celebrating more than most \u2013 as they\u2019re currently under detention for alleged criminal activity.\u00a0Ilaria Salis, of the Italian Left party, and Fredi Beleri, a candidate for the Greek centre-right New Democracy, will soon be heading to take up seats in Brussels and Strasbourg.\u00a0Both seem set to be a thorn in the side of the countries where they were arrested, with both Hungary and Albania facing significant questions over judicial independence.\u00a0\u201cWe are very happy about the election,\u201d Salis\u2019 father Roberto told Euronews. \u201cI hope she&#8217;s free as soon as possible.\u201dIlaria was detained in Hungary just over a year ago, and is still awaiting trial on charges of having assaulted neo-Nazi extremists, which she has denied.After being successful in two Italian regions, she\u2019s\u00a0now set to be released, under rules which grant MEPs\u00a0immunity from legal proceedings in other EU member states.In practice, the paperwork to secure her freedom could take four to five weeks, and she may need time to recover from her ordeal, her father said, potentially jeopardising her ability to take part in opening proceedings of the new five-year term.Tough conditionsThough she was released from jail to house arrest on 23 May, her conditions have been \u201cvery tough\u201d, her father added.He views the arrest of the anti-fascist activist \u2013 in an EU member that has taken a distinctly authoritarian, rightward swerve \u2013 as a \u201ctotally political action\u201d.\u00a0That accusation of judicial bias\u00a0is mirrored for Beleri, a Greek national convicted of vote-buying after being elected mayor of Himara, in southern Albania.\u201cIt\u2019s a political arrest &#8230; there\u2019s no evidence, no proof of any crime,\u201d Marin Suli, General Secretary of Beleri\u2019s Albanian party, told Euronews.\u201cThe rule of law doesn\u2019t exist, it\u2019s the rule of Rama,\u201d Suli added, referring to Albania\u2019s socialist prime minister.Beleri won\u2019t be automatically freed, as Albania is outside the EU \u2013 but Suli is hopeful he can start attending sessions after his two-year sentence expires in September.Beleri has denied and appealed the charges \u2013 and Suli says they\u2019ll take a\u00a0case to the European Court of Human Rights if need be.Talks blockedHis case was taken up by numerous existing MEPs. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis had threatened to block Albania\u2019s talks to join the EU until the issue was resolved, before adding Beleri to his own New Democracy party list.\u00a0In a Facebook post on Monday, Beleri hailed his win as part of the \u201cbattle for democracy\u201d and \u201cEuropean values\u201d.\u00a0\u201cLight always wins over darkness &#8230; the power of democracy can sweep away any coup d&#8217;\u00e9tat,\u201d he said. \u201cI will work hard to be useful to my party, to New Democracy and above all to our homeland.\u201d\u00a0EU rules are intended to protect MEPs from political persecution \u2013 but lawmakers aren\u2019t totally immune from justice.ADVERTISEMENTThey can still be detained if caught red-handed \u2013 as Belgian authorities say Eva Kaili was, though she has denied wrongdoing in the cash-for-influence scandal known as Qatargate.Parliament can also agree to lift an individual lawmaker\u2019s immunity, as was the case with Greece\u2019s Ioannis Lagos, after his far-right Golden Dawn party was judged to be a criminal organisation.Technically, MEPs can still retain their office even after conviction or imprisonment, but doing the job isn\u2019t always logistically easy.While in prison, Salis was\u00a0allowed only one hour of interviews per month, and wasn\u2019t able to carry out a conventional campaign.After the election, Beleri had to attend a first meeting of New Democracy MEPs via videolink, after obtaining special permission from Albanian anti-corruption authorities, Euronews Albania has reported.ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Freshly elected Ilaria Salis and Fredi Beleri may prove a thorn in the side of Hungary and Albania, as supposedly political charges raise questions over the rule of law. 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