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17
November
2014

Eight Polis residents are charged after anti-dam protests

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📅 17 November 2014 📍 Albania

Eight residents were charged over a confrontation with police during July protests against the Gurshpate hydropower plant. The charges followed community efforts to protect drinking and irrigation water in a village without piped water; the case shows how resistance to infrastructure projects could bring state coercion and criminalization.

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Eight Polis residents

Local farmers

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Gurshpate community

Albanian police