TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian opposition lawmakers violently disrupted a Parliament session Monday to protest the imprisonment of a fellow legislator for alleged slander.

Albania’s Court of Appeals upheld a one-year sentence on Thursday that will imprison opposition Member of Parliament (MP) Ervin Salianji during the next election for falsely reporting a crime, after

Albanian opposition politicians set fire to a pile of wooden chairs outside parliament on Monday to protest the imprisonment of a colleague. At the start of the regular parliamentary session, members of the opposition carried chairs from the parliament chamber and set them ablaze on the steps of the building.

By bne IntelliNews Albanian police have referred a case involving 25 lawmakers to special prosecutors after violent protests erupted in parliament over the jailing of an opposition MP. The lawmakers face accusations of property destruction during the protest,

Albanian opposition politicians set fire to a pile of wooden chairs outside parliament on Monday to protest against the imprisonment of a colleague. At the start of the regular parliamentary session,