Fiqrete Shehu (''née'' Sanxhaktari; 17 November 1919 – 11 September 1988) was an Albanian politician during the

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. She was the wife of former

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Mehmet Shehu Mehmet Ismail Shehu (January 10, 1913 – December 18, 1981) was an Albanian communist politician who served as the 23rd Prime Minister of Albania from 1954 to 1981. As an acknowledged military tactician, without whose leadership the communist p ...

. She was born on 17 November 1919. Shehu was member of the General Council of the

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since April 1952. She also served as Director of the Political V.I. Lenin Higher Party School ( sq, Shkolla e Lartë e Partisë "V.I. Lenin") in

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. After the death of her husband,

, in 1981, she was tried and convicted of being an agent of multiple foreign intelligence services, and was imprisoned and later interned with her family. Shehu died in internment on 11 September 1988. She was buried in the cemetery of the prison near

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( Lezhë District). Her body was retrieved after 1990 by her family.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Shehu, Fiqrete 1919 births 1988 deaths Albanian atheists 20th-century Albanian women politicians Labour Party of Albania politicians Albanian people who died in prison custody Prisoners who died in Albanian detention

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