Following these efforts, in July 2020 amendments to Law no. 45/2015 On the Right to Information in Former State Security Documents of the People’s Socialist Republic of Albania were approved. Under the amendments, the Authority cooperates with central and local state institutions in the process of recovering and identifying the human remains of those who went missing or were executed under communism. Cooperation includes measures to protect and preserve in the most appropriate way burial sites that have already been identified, as well as those that are yet to be identified. 1.2 Institutions established by the Albanian Government since the 1990s, and their responsibilities focusing on the rights of victims and victims’ families from the communist era After democracy was established it was necessary to set up a central state institution to organize compensation and rehabilitation for all persons who had been unjustly accused for political reasons under the communist regime. The objective was to ensure that former politically persecuted people received priority and were provided with material and moral assistance, and completely integrated in democratic society. Institutions existed for a limited period of time and had the task of implementing the laws adopted by the Albanian Parliament and the Decisions of the Council of Ministers, on protecting the civil rights of the victims’ families as a basis for restoring a free and democratic society. The Committee of Former Political Convicts and Persecuted functioned from January 1993 to December 1994. During this time the government and parliament approved:
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