Hajredin Çeliku (May 4, 1927 – June 2005) was a former

Albania Albania ( ; or ), officially the Republic of Albania (), is a country in Southeast Europe. It is located in the Balkans, on the Adriatic Sea, Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea, and shares land borders with Montenegro to ...

n politician of the Albanian Party of Labour. He was a member of the

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, and served as member of the

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Life

Çeliku was born in

Peshkopi Peshkopi (; sq-definite, Peshkopia) is a town located in the mountainous regions of northeastern Albania, in Dibër County. It is the capital of both the county () and the district () of Dibër, and is the only county regional capital in Albania ...

, Diber District in the

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on 4 May 1927. During

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he was active in the Young Communist Movement; after the war became member of Albanian Worker Party in 1947. He completed studies in

mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines and mechanism (engineering), mechanisms that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and engineering mathematics, mathematics principl ...

University of Tirana The University of Tirana (, abbreviated UT) is a public university located at the central borough of Tirana 10 in Tirana, Albania. It was established as the State University of Tirana (SUT) in 1957 through merging of five existing institutes ...

. In 1966, he was Deputy Chairman of the People's Assembly (Alb: ''Kuvendi Popullor''). He served as representative in the sixth parliamentary term until 1970.
- Republika e Shqipërisë KUVEND. Tiranë 2005 In the following years he worked as a functionary of the Party in the economic sector, and Secretary of the Party for

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. At the 8th Congress of the Party in November 1981, he was elected member of the

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of the party without being a candidate-member first. Çeliku remained member of this supreme governing body until December 1990. Between 1982 and 1991, he served again as representative during the tenth and eleventh legislature of the People's Assembly. On November 23, 1982, Prime Minister

Adil Çarçani Adil Çarçani (5 May 1922 – 13 October 1997) was an Albanian politician who served as the List of Prime Ministers of Albania, 24th Prime Minister of Albania during the Communist era led by Enver Hoxha. He served as the titular head of the Alban ...

appointed him the Minister of Mines and Energy in his government. After that, he was in 1989 a member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Party. He was Minister of Transports again 1987-1989, and the next Çarçani government until 23 December 1990. In 1993, a special court rose in Tirana against Çeliku and nine other former high-ranking officials ( Besnik Bekteshi,

Foto Çami Foto Çami (born 4 October 1925, date of death unknown) was an Albanian academic and politician of Albanian Party of Labour (PPSh). Biography Çami was born on 4 October 1925 in the village of Labovë of Gjirokastër District in Albania. He joine ...

, Vangjel Çërrava, Muho Asllani,

Lenka Çuko Lenka Çuko (born 8 July 1938) is an Albanian former politician of the Albanian Party of Labour (PPSh). Biography Çuko was born in Lushnjë to a family of partial Aromanian origins. In 1970, she was elected first-deputy of the People's Ass ...

Llambi Gegprifti Llambi Gegprifti (14 February 1942 – 1 May 2023) was an Albanian politician who was the mayor of Tirana (precisely Chairman of the Executive Committee of the People's Council of Tirana District) from 1986 through 1987 and 1989 through 1990. H ...

, Qirjako Mihali,

Pali Miska Pali Miska (19 May 1931 – September 2009) was an Albanian politician of the Communist Era. He served as Chairman of the Assembly of the Republic of Albania from 22 November 1982 to 19 February 1987. Miska was first as a party functionary in ...

, and Prokop Murra). They were accused of "abuse of public funds". The following sentences were given: Mihali and Gegprifti eight years each, Miska and Çuko seven years each, Çami, Çeliku and Bekteshi six years each, and Çërrava, Murra and Asllani five years each.Kathleen Imholz: ''CAN ALBANIA BREAK THE CHAIN? THE 1993-94 TRIALS OF FORMER HIGH COMMUNIST OFFICIALS''

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