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Gjergj Kokoshi completed his studies in Italy and France, where he obtained a doctorate in literature. Upon returning to Albania, he supported the anti-fascist movement. At the Congress of Përmet, he was elected a member of the General Council of the National Liberation Anti-Fascist Council and was assigned responsibility for education.

He was appointed Minister of Education, a position he held for 80 days before resigning due to disagreements with the policies of the time. His opposition to the new electoral law of 1945, which did not guarantee free elections and hindered the establishment of a parliamentary opposition, marked a turning point in his political trajectory. Together with a group of intellectuals of the time, and with the involvement of the British and American missions in Albania, he sought to establish a political group that could oppose or postpone the elections, given the limited time available.

The group failed to formally establish an opposition to the Democratic Front, and Kokoshi was subsequently arrested as one of 37 people accused in the case. The trial began on 17 June and concluded on 2 July 1946. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

He died in Burrel Prison in 1960.

The Sigurimi documentation for Musine Kokalari is part of the investigative-judicial file of the 37 defendants in January 1946. Immediately after the elections, they were arrested because they had spoken out against the new electoral law and had made attempts to postpone the first elections. Musine was part of the group that drafted a note addressed to the British mission to intervene with the Albanian Government to postpone the holding of the first elections in order to organize and prepare the opposition front against the Democratic Front.

Musine's documentation in the Sigurimi files belongs to the period 1945-1983, throughout her entire life lived under the communist regime.

At the beginning of 1945, in Kelmend, in the area associated with the Shkodër region, an armed confrontation took place between the National Liberation forces and the group led by Prekë Cali. Following the clashes, Prekë Cali’s group was surrounded in the Vukël Cave.

The siege of the Vukël Cave lasted for eight days. During this time, the group remained surrounded and did not surrender immediately. After eight days, Prekë Cali decided to surrender. His decision was linked to a request for guarantees and to his desire to protect the young men who were with him.

Following his surrender, the case of Prekë Cali entered the stage of arrest and prosecution. On February 24, 1945, Prekë Cali was arrested. He was subsequently accused of armed activity against the new authorities. In connection with these accusations, he was labeled a “war criminal” and charged with “treason against the Homeland.” These designations and charges were used in the proceedings that followed his arrest. Other individuals associated with his group were also included in the case. They were considered collaborators of Prekë Cali and were likewise sentenced.

In addition to Prekë Cali, the proceedings involved Ded Lulashi and other individuals associated with the group. At the conclusion of the trial, Prekë Cali and Ded Lulashi were sentenced to death. Several of the other defendants, including Fran Zef Pëllumbi, Fran Dosh Prenga, Ndue Gjo Rapuka, and Kol Prek Pëllumbi, were sentenced to life imprisonment.

The death sentence imposed on Prekë Cali was carried out in March 1945.

The Treatment of Executed Persons and Those Who Died in State Custody, 1944–1960: The Normative Framework, Typology and Procedural Chain”, by S. Mara, O. Besho, L. Ismaili and J. Hibo, examines how the Albanian state in the first post-World War II years regulated, at the legal and administrative levels, the death penalty, executions, and the treatment of persons who died in state institutions. The study draws on archival documents, judicial decisions, normative acts, administrative correspondence, and internal regulations, reconstructing the procedural chain from sentencing to the responsible implementing authority. Particular attention is given to the absence of documentation concerning executions and the fate of the bodies, examining whether this absence may be linked to administrative practices and to the rules governing the preservation and destruction of records.