Official Name: Republic of Albania
Population: 3,601,200
Capital: Tirana - Pop. 600,000
Area: 28,748 sq. km. / 17,863 sq. miles.
Language: Albanian
Religion: Muslim, Orthodox Christian, Catholic
Status of Homosexuality: Legal
Telephone Country Code: 355
In the summer of 1994 the Government of Albania put forward a draft penal code under which homosexuality would have remained illegal, but with the maximum sentence reduced to three years. A campaign by the Gay Albania Society within Albania, and international pressure orchestrated by ILGA, in which the Council of Europe played an important role, led to the withdrawal of this draft law.
On January 20, 1995 the Albanian Parliament legalized homosexual relations in Albania. Article 137 of the old Penal Code promulgated under socialist Albania, which offered ten years of prison for simply "being homosexual" has thus been done away with completely.
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