Nafiz Bezhani (1928–2004) was an

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jurist, politician and writer.

Life

Born in 1928 in Fterrë, southern

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, and was educated at the Faculty of Law of the

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. In 1943 he joined the National Liberation Movement and was elected a delegate of the First Council of the Anti-fascist Youth in August 1944. After the 1956 conference of the

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he was expelled from the party. In 1992 he became a member of the

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and in 1997 head of the Verification Committee of the Parliament of Albania, which was responsible for finding out possible agents of the

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that held political and judicial offices in post-Communist Albania.

Sources

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bezhani, Nafiz 1936 births People from Tepelenë 20th-century Albanian politicians 20th-century Albanian judges 2004 deaths 20th-century Albanian writers University of Tirana alumni