YZEIRAJ v ALBANIA - 70455/10 (No violation of Article 6+6-3-d - Right to a fair trial (Article 6 - Criminal proceedings Article 6-1 - Fair hearing)) Court (Third Section Committee)

The European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting as a Committee composed of:

Georgios A. Serghides , President , Darian Pavli, Oddný Mjöll Arnardóttir , judges , and Olga Chernishova, Deputy Section Registrar,

the application (no. 70455/10 ) against the Republic of Albania lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ("the Convention") on 25 November 2010 by an Albanian national, Mr Pëllumb Yzeiraj, born in 1975 and detained in Peqin ("the applicant") who was represented by Mr P. Pavarini, a lawyer practising in Torino;

the decision to give notice of the application to the Albanian Government ("the Government"), represented by their then Agent, Ms Alma Hicka, and subsequently by Mr O. Moçka, of the State Advocate's Office;

The application concerns the alleged unfairness of the criminal proceedings against the applicant, namely the lack of adequate reasons in the domestic decisions in rejecting the applicant's alibi and alleged domestic courts' failure to summon and question a number of witnesses.