{"id":30960,"date":"2022-02-04T18:40:02","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T17:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=30960"},"modified":"2022-02-04T18:40:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T17:40:02","slug":"yuri-kim-reacts-to-tahiris-verdict-no-ones-above-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/yuri-kim-reacts-to-tahiris-verdict-no-ones-above-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuri Kim reacts to Tahiri\u2019s verdict: No one\u2019s above the law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US ambassador Yuri Kim has reacted after the Special Appeals Court found Saimir Tahiri guilty of abuse of power, sentencing him to 5 years in prison, valid immediately. The US ambassador\u2019s initial reaction was that \u2018no one \u2013 including Tahiri \u2013 is above the law\u2019.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We urge judicial institutions to continue to demonstrate that no one &#8211; regardless of party, position, or wealth &#8211; is above the law. No more impunity.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ambassador Yuri Kim (@USAmbAlbania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USAmbAlbania\/status\/1489646824264773637?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Through a post on her official Twitter account, the US ambassador called on all judicial institutions to continue demonstrating that \u2018regardless of party, position or wealth, no one is above the law.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Special Appeals Court against Corruption and Organized Crime found Tahiri guilty on several counts of abuse of power, thus upholding the previous verdict that had sentenced Tahiri to 5 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Tahiri will be benefiting from a reduced sentence, thus only serving 3.4 years in prison but he does have the right to send the case for recourse at the High Court.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2022\/02\/04\/live-l-appeals-court-rules-on-former-minister-saimir-tahiri\/\">Ex-minister Saimir Tahiri sentenced to 3 years and 4 months<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2022\/01\/17\/saimir-tahiris-trial-gets-postponed-after-prosecutors-dont-show-up\/\">Saimir Tahiri\u2019s trial gets postponed after prosecutors don\u2019t show up<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"title-post\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/09\/28\/tahiri-trial-high-court-takes-case-to-special-court-of-appeals\/\">Tahiri trial, High Court takes case to Special Court of Appeals<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US ambassador Yuri Kim has reacted after the Special Appeals Court found Saimir Tahiri guilty of abuse of power, sentencing him to 5 years in prison, valid immediately. The US ambassador\u2019s initial reaction was that \u2018no one \u2013 including Tahiri \u2013 is above the law\u2019. We urge judicial institutions to continue to demonstrate that no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":30961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[151,505,504,503],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Yuri Kim reacts to Tahiri\u2019s verdict: No one\u2019s above the law - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/yuri-kim-reacts-to-tahiris-verdict-no-ones-above-the-law\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yuri Kim reacts to Tahiri\u2019s verdict: No one\u2019s above the law - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"US ambassador Yuri Kim has reacted after the Special Appeals Court found Saimir Tahiri guilty of abuse of power, sentencing him to 5 years in prison, valid immediately. 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