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.

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