Excerpt from the testimony of former political prisoner Shkëlqim Abazi given for AIDSSH. Shkëlqim Abazi, born on 23 December 1951, in Berat. He was arrested at the age of 16, on 11 August 1968, on the charges of “the crime of treason against the homeland through attempted escape” and “agitation and propaganda against the people’s power”. He was sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment. He served his sentence in Spaç.