Following the arrest of three suspects and a request to lift the immunity of three opposition MPs, both the opposition and the government have moved to exert influence over the probe into a deadly protest.

Socialist leader Edi Rama has called on supporters to gather on Saturday in remembrance of last year's January 21 riots, in which four anti-government protestors died.

Balkan Insight has learned that key evidence shot by security cameras in the Prime Minister’s office during the January 21 riots was destroyed in the aftermath of the protest.

Albania’s ruling Democrats and the opposition Socialists have reached a deal to extended political consensus for reforms which have been blocked by the two-year political crisis.

Plans for a comeback to party politics are straining the already sour relationship between Albania’s President and the ruling Democratic Party.

Court jails five former commissioners for having falsified votes in the 2009 general election.

While hundreds of women protested on International Women’s Day against Albania’s Prime Minister Sali Berisha, others joined him in a party to mark the occasion.